Ryland Fletcher Young Iii PhD

Dr. Ryland Young, Regents Professor and Sadie Hatfield Professor of Agriculture in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M University, has been named University Distinguished Professor.
Young’s research focuses on bacterial viruses, also known as bacteriophage or phage. Considered out of the mainstream focus of scientific studies, Young’s work has centered on how a protein or proteins within a virus, known as “phage” in scientific circles, does the same thing to bacteria cell walls as antibiotics. This science is important since many disease-causing bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.