Peter Hudson New Huck Institutes
of the Life Sciences Director
May 2, 2006
Dr. Peter J. Hudson, Willaman Chair
in Biology and Director of the Center
for Infectious Disease Dynamics at
Penn State, has accepted the position
of Director of the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J.
Lloyd Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
effective July 1, 2006. Dr. Hudson
is a co-funded faculty member of the
Penn State Institutes of the Environment.
Dr. Hudson received his DPhil in Zoology from the Edward Grey Institute, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, in 1979. He was employed by the Game Conservancy Trust from 1979 to 1995 as first a Research Scientist and then the Upland Research Manager. In 1995 he moved to the University of Stirling as a Reader in Wildlife Epidemiology and in 1998 was promoted to a Personal Chair in Animal Ecology. In 2002 he accepted the Willaman Chair in Biology at Penn State.
Dr. Hudson has developed a national and an international reputation in the field of infectious diseases of birds and mammals. He has had consistent funding from NSF and international agencies and has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers. The Huck Institutes have been very fortunate in the outstanding leadership provided first by Nina Fedoroff and then by Channa Reddy.