Joshua Mallum, PhD

Personal Statement

Joshua received his B.S. degree at Bayero Univesity-Bano in Nigeria, and obtained both his M.S. in virology and Ph.D. in molecular virology at Wuhan University in China. The focus of his thesis work was the selective replication by mutant adnovirus (AD5) in p53-deficient human tumor cells and tumor bearing mice using the GFP as a reporter gene. At Baylor, he has concentrated on creating and charaterizing chimeric adnoviral vectors that express either reporter proteins or potentially therapeutic gene products ABCA4. Since many ocular disorders are potential targets for gene therapy occur as a result of mutations in genes affecting photoreceptor function and viability, he is developing ways to specifically target these cells.

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