Roy Curtiss
Roy Curtiss, III is a professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at the University of Florida. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2001.Education
Curtiss earned his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1962. At Cornell, he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.Career
Roy was Charles H. McCauley Professor of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, Professor and Chairman of Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, and Professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at Arizona State University. He was the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology within the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. He has published more than 250 articles in scholarly journals and has secured multiple patents.
