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Jay Fox, PhD, Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
Transcript:
What I love about my research is that it affords me the unique opportunity to discover things that have never been known before.
My name is Jay Fox. I'm a professor of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology in the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Years ago, when I arrived at the University of Virginia, my research was focused on discovering toxins in snake venoms that give rise to the hemorrhage associated with snake bites. Since that time, we've been able to develop antibodies as well as antidotes to those toxins, and more recently, we've been involved in exploring the mechanisms of passive biology associated with the toxins in the local tissue damage.
The World Health Organization estimates approximately 130,000 people die worldwide from snake and venom. In fact, it is designated snake and venom as an elected tropical health problem. The work we do in our laboratory helps attenuate the morbidities associated with those snake and venom to minimize amputations and other effects caused by the bite.
Jay Fox, PhD, Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
Transcript:
What I love about my research is that it affords me the unique opportunity to discover things that have never been known before.
My name is Jay Fox. I'm a professor of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology in the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Years ago, when I arrived at the University of Virginia, my research was focused on discovering toxins in snake venoms that give rise to the hemorrhage associated with snake bites. Since that time, we've been able to develop antibodies as well as antidotes to those toxins, and more recently, we've been involved in exploring the mechanisms of passive biology associated with the toxins in the local tissue damage.
The World Health Organization estimates approximately 130,000 people die worldwide from snake and venom. In fact, it is designated snake and venom as an elected tropical health problem. The work we do in our laboratory helps attenuate the morbidities associated with those snake and venom to minimize amputations and other effects caused by the bite.
