Ian R. Tizard

Ian Tizard is the University Distinguished Professor of Immunology at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He obtained his BVMS degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1965. He then spent a year studying Pathology at the University where he first became deeply interested in Immunology. As a result he subsequently went to the University of Cambridge to obtain his PhD. In 1969 he moved to the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and eventually joined the faculty. He moved to Texas A&M University in 1982. He wrote the first edition of his Veterinary Immunology Text in 1977 in order to bring together the available information on what was then an exciting new discipline. The book is now in its 9th edition with a new, very different edition coming out in the summer of 2017. Dr Tizard has a very active research program in Immunology. He has worked on the development of several innovative animal and vaccines . He holds the Richard Schubot Endowed chair in Exotic Bird Health and is investigating the pathogenesis of a very interesting T cell-mediated neurologic disease in parrots. He keeps very current in the Veterinary Immunology literature and teaches an undergraduate course on the subject. Subscribers to the new edition of the text will receive a quarterly update that will keep them abreast of this rapidly changing field.