Microgen and its research team currently have multiple sources of federal funding to support their research goals. They are continuously applying for future grants, including additional funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Raymond Stowe CEO directs Microgen Laboratories’s analytical and research programs. Dr. Stowe received his B.S. in microbiology from Stephen F. Austin State University. He then worked at NASA-Johnson Space Center where he co-developed projects to study the effects of stress and spaceflight on cell-mediated immunity and reactivation of latent viral infections in astronauts, funded by a NASA fellowship. He subsequently received his PhD in the Experimental Pathology program at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he specialized in molecular immunology and virology. Dr. Stowe has authored numerous articles and has been either PI and Co-I on several federal and non-federal grants and contracts.
Dr Hussain, Principal Scientist and Biostatistician at Microgen Laboratories, is working on the commercialization of novel isothermal amplification tests for several viral pathogens. Dr Hussain received her PhD in Developmental Psychology and Statistics & Measurement from the University of Houston. Subsequently she completed two postdoctoral positions to further amplify training in statistics and in health psychology. At the University of Delaware, Dr Hussain focused on big data and utilizing statistical techniques to overcome data missingness, power issues, and abnormal data. At the University of California, Merced, she focused on data collection within an ethnically minoritized and medically underserved community to study the psychosocial and behavioral determinants of cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk. In her current role, Dr Hussain aids study design, manages and statistically analyzes the data, prepares manuscripts for publication, and contributes to the preparation of NIH reports. Dr Hussain has authored numerous articles and contributed to several successfully funded federal grants.
