Michael J. P. Lawman, Ph.D., received his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Surrey. He came to the United States as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee. Following this fellowship he served as an Assistant Professor at Auburn University and the University of Florida. In 1984, he became the Head of Immunology and Cytokine Therapeutics at the Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization, a research institute and biotechnology company in Saskatchewan, Canada, where he holds several patents. Dr. Lawman returned to the University of Florida as an Associate Professor in the College of Medicine and Associate Director of Research in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, College of Medicine in the years prior to becoming the Director of the Cell Biology Division of the WDMCI, where he continued his research interests on cell regulation, biology of stem cells and the characterization of growth factors involved in stem cell replication. Also, while at the WDMCI, he helped initiate efforts that resulted in the formation of the Central Florida Research Association. Dr. Lawman has published a number of book chapters, and has 70 publications in the areas of vaccines, immunology, virology, infectious diseases, and cytokine characterization and therapy. He is currently the Director of Pediatric Research at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital at Tampa and an adjunct Professor at the University of South Florida, College of Medicine. Dr. Lawman is a co-founder of Morphogenesis, Inc.