Thomas P. Burris

Thomas P. Burris is the current Director at the Genetics Institute. Thomas has also previously held positions at Asteroid Therapeutics, Inc., Myonid Therapeutics, Inc., University of Health Science and Pharmacy - St. Louis, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Pelagos Pharma, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Scripps Research, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Dr. Burris has also worked as a Senior Research Advisor at Eli Lilly and Company.

Thomas P. Burris's educational career began with a BA in Chemistry from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Thomas then went on to get their Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Florida State University. After that, they did two postdocs, one in Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and one in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Some individuals on their team include Henry V. Baker - Associate Director, Cindy Heesacker - Assistant Director, Administrative Services.