Stephen Young PhD

Stephen Young, Ph.D., received his B.S. and M.S. in Biological Sciences from Wright State University and his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He completed an American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM) post-doctoral fellowship program at the University of Washington. Dr. Young has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Microbiology for the last 21 years. Dr. Young rose through the academic ranks at the University of New Mexico achieving the rank of Professor in the Department of Pathology. His primary responsibility in his academic appointment at UNM was to be the Director of Clinical Virology and with the formation of TriCore Reference Laboratories, in 1998, he assumed the responsibilities for both Microbiology and Virology.

Dr. Young served as the Director of the Infectious Disease Section for 17 years. Along with his service responsibilities was funded for ten years by Sandia National Laboratories working on the development of long-range sensors for biodefense. Dr. Young has been a collaborator for 25 years in the Multi-Center AIDS Cohort Study is active on several NIH grants affiliated with this cohort. Dr. Young has active research in the evaluation and development of diagnostic products for clinical microbiology and has completed approximately 100 FDA in vitro diagnostic device trials or market evaluations of diagnostic tests. Recently, Dr. Young retired from the University of New Mexico but remains as faculty as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology to continue a research contract. Dr. Young is now in a new role as Director of Research and Clinical Trials at TriCore Reference Laboratories.