Pioneering human geneticist C. Thomas Caskey died Thursday, January 14 at the age of 83. Caskey was a professor at Baylor College of Medicine for over 30 years, where he contributed to the understanding of the human genome and conducted work that led to the treatment of genetic diseases.
“Dr. Caskey was a visionary who saw what was possible and understood the importance genetics would play in medicine,” Paul Klotman, president and executive dean at Baylor, says in a Baylor news release. “Many scientists he mentored are now doing outstanding work around the world, as well as at Baylor College of Medicine. He was a tremendous leader and a good friend.”
Caskey was born in Lancaster, South Carolina in 1938. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina before leaving to attend medical school at Duke University. At Duke, he researched purine allosteric regulation with James B. Wyngaarden. He went ...
