Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Stephen Walker

Biography

Dr. Stephen Walker is currently on the faculty at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and is also on the Graduate faculty as well as faculty in the Neuroscience Program. He received his doctorate in Genetics & Developmental Biology at West Virginia University followed by post-graduate work at Wake Forest University Health Sciences in the areas of molecular biology and proteomics. His initial faculty appointment was in the Department of Pediatrics, Section on Medical Genetics, at Wake Forest University Health Sciences. In this position he recruited families and carried out genetic association studies related to single-gene craniofacial disorders. From there he moved to the faculty in the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology where he participated in studies examining the molecular basis for substance abuse using nonhuman primate animal models. It is in this position that he was first introduced to microarray technology (looking at gene expression at the “whole transcriptome” level). Dr. Walker has been a member of the FDA-sponsored International Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) consortium since its inception in 2005.

Research Interest

cognition-earning, genetics-genome, growth & development, immunology, molecular biology