Thomas Caskey, MD, FACP serves as Director and CEO of the Brown
Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas
Health Science Center in Houston. He served as Senior Vice President,
Human Genetics and Vaccines Discovery at Merck Research Laboratories,
West Point and President of the Merck Genome Research Institute. He is
an Adjunct Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Dr. Caskey joined Essex
Woodlands in June 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and Institute of Medicine and past President of the American
Society of Human Genetics and the Human Genome Organization, and Texas
Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science. .
Dr. Caskey earned his
medical doctorate from Duke University. He has received numerous
academic and industry honors. His genetic research has identified the
genetic basis of ten major inheritable diseases and opened the
understanding of triplet repeat diseases (Fragile X, myotonic dystrophy
and others). His personal identification patent, which is the basis of
worldwide application for forensic science, is regularly employed by the
FBI.
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