Christopher Contag

About

Dr. Contag joined Michigan State University in 2017 as the founding director of the Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering (IQ) and the inaugural chair of the new Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering. He is also a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Contag received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota, St. Paul in 1982. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1988, where he did his dissertation research on the topic of viral infections of the central nervous system. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 1990-1994 in the Department of Microbiology where he studied mother-to-infant transmission of HIV, and then joined the faculty

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, 1990-1995, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Postdoctoral Fellow, 1988-1989, University of Minnesota, Department of Microbiology
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Microbiology, 1988
• B.S., University of Minnesota, Biology, 1982