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Dr. Wormley received his B.S. degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana State University Health Science Center also in New Orleans, LA. He then conducted his post-doctoral studies in Infectious Diseases at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC prior to joining the faculty in the Department of Biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 2005. Dr. Wormley’s research laboratory utilizes the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans as a model organism to study host-fungal interactions for the purpose of developing novel immune therapies and/or vaccines to treat and/or prevent invasive fungal infections. C. neoformans infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among AIDS patients. In sub-Saharan Africa, deaths due to cryptococcal meningitis (530,000) appear to be more frequent than tuberculosis (350,000). Dr. Wormley’s research is supported by two grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and he is co-investigator on a training grant funded by the Department of Defense. He currently is a standing member of the AIDS-Associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer (AOIC) NIH study section, a member of the Committee on Microbiological Issues Impacting Minorities for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Associate Director of the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Sciences at UTSA.
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