Patrick Flood is the Director of Program on Inflammation at TheraLogics, Inc. and an Associate Professor of Periodontology, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Flood received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at Purdue University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry at Indiana University. He attained his PhD in Immunology at the University of Chicago in 1980, and from there did 3 years of postdoctoral work at Yale University School of Medicine. He was appointed as an Assistant Investigator in the Howard Hughes Investigator and an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine in 1983 working in the area of immune regulation and cancer biology. He accepted an appointment as Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988, where he joined the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has served as Associate Dean for Research at the UNC School of Dentistry and Director of the Dental Research Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, and currently serves as the Director of the UNC Comprehensive Center for Inflammatory Disorders as well the Program Director of the Curriculum in Oral Biology. He has over 100 publications in the fields of immune regulation, inflammation, and cancer, and has served as an reviewer and editor for numerous national publications, study panels, and programs. His current research interests include research on the basic biological mechanisms of inflammation within the Central Nervous System, as well as the role of the immune system in cancer resistance.