vscott@wmcarey.edu (601) 318-6043
Dr. Veronica Scott graduated from Mississippi State University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology. She later earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Microbiology) with a minor in Veterinary Medical Science from Mississippi State in 2010. While completing her graduate degree she received external funding from the National Institutes of Health to support her dissertation research project which utilized the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV)-infected cat to model HIV placental immunology and vertical transmission. As a graduate teaching assistant, she instructed multiple Biology and Microbiology undergraduate and graduate laboratory classes.
Dr. Scott completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2015. During her postgraduate tenure, she designed and evaluated novel DNA plasmid vaccine strategies for the prevention of infection from biosafety level 2 pathogens including C. botulinum neurotoxins, influenza A virus, and respiratory syncytial virus. Dr. Scott received an UNCF/Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowship Award and a Touchlight Genetics Ltd. Research Grant to support her research projects. She obtained patents for her C. botulinum neurotoxin based vaccine and her nucleic acid constructs and vaccines for human respiratory syncytial virus. She has also published her graduate and postgraduate work in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Dr. Scott has taught Medical Microbiology and Infection and Immunity since joining the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2016.
