Tulane Center for Airborne Infection and Transmission Science (TUCAiTS)

A Word from Dr. Chad Roy: Tulane Medicine’s Vice Chair of Research

We focus on highly infectious diseases, sometimes needing to be worked on in biocontainment—high containment laboratories, which we have here at Tulane as well.

Hi, I'm Chad Roy. I'm a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and I also serve as the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Medicine. I was formerly with the U.S. Army at the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, for almost a decade. With the Army, I was a civilian scientist. I joined the faculty at Tulane 18 years ago. I'm born and raised in Louisiana.

I do research in infectious disease aerobiology. Take something like tuberculosis—it's been with human beings as a disease forever, since our origins. We know about prevention through vaccination, for instance, but the mechanism of how the disease is transmitted? We know very little about that. Those types of questions are what keep me interested and have kept me interested for decades.