Donald J. Alcendor, PhD

Dr. Alcendor received his B.S., in Microbiology from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; M.S. in Bacteriology from Louisiana, State University in Baton, Rouge and completed his doctoral studies in Molecular Virology at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Alcendor completed his post-graduate studies at the NIH and Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore Maryland in departments of Molecular Virology and Viral Oncology respectively. He is a Cytomegalovirus Expert for the FDA, Division of Vaccine Injury and Compensation Program for the Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Maryland. He is a consultant and voting member on the FDA Antiviral Drug Advisory Committee. He is also a committee member on the Independent Research Evaluation and Decision Panel (REDP) for the AIDS Cancer and Specimen Resource of the NCI-AIDS Malignancy Program. He is a Brain-on-chip investigator in partnership with Vanderbilt and the Cleveland Clinic and an external associate member of the Vanderbilt VIIBRE consortium with an Adjunct faculty appointment in Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt. His research interest includes Cytomegalovirus trafficking of the central nervous system (CNS) with focus on the Blood-brain and retinal barriers and the neuropathological implications for both ocular and CMV induced congenital disease.