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Mitch Magee, PhD, is working on identifying protective antigens to individually test their protective capacity. His expertise lies in immunology and use of the animal model.
Currently, Magee is co-investigator on a study funded by the National Institutes of Health to explore the protective antigens of burkholderia mallei, an organism that causes glanders, a condition that affects mainly horses and is rare, but possible, in humans. Glanders is considered as a potential agent for biological warfare and of biological terrorism.
Prior to his work at Arizona State University, Magee held assistant professor positions at the Center for Biomedical Inventions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Department of Microbiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He also has served as the assistant director of the Department of Clinical Investigation at the Texas Center for Infectious Disease.
Magee earned a BS in medical technology from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and a PhD in microbiology from Texas A&M University at College. He completed postdoctoral work in infectious disease at the University of Pittsburgh.