Frank J. Waxman, Ph.D.

INBRE Principal Investigator

Dr. Frank Waxman is a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.  Dr. Waxman completed his undergraduate education at UCLA and received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from The University of Illinois Medical Center.  He held faculty positions at Washington State University and Ohio State University and served as a Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories.  He is a patent holder, co-founder of a publicly traded biotechnology company, the author of more than fifty scientific publications, and the recipient of more than $30 million dollars in current research funding.  Dr. Waxman previously served as the Vice President for Research at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.