Floyd L. Wormley, Jr., Ph.D. is currently a professor and associate provost for research and dean of graduate studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Wormley received his B.S. in cellular and molecular biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, La. and his M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology, immunology and parasitology from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, La. He then conducted his post-doctoral studies in infectious diseases at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.

Wormley is a 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a 2017 Fulbright Scholar, and a 2016 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The purpose of Wormley’s research program is to develop novel immune therapies and/or vaccines to treat and/or prevent invasive fungal infections and is currently supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.