Don Gammon received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada) and went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Virology at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in the laboratory of Dr. David Evans where he studied poxvirus replication and poxvirus-host interactions. Upon completion of his graduate research, Dr. Gammon pursued post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Dr. Craig Mello, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In the Mello laboratory, he developed novel RNA virus-Lepidopteran (moth and butterfly) host systems to uncover both the immunity mechanisms used by eukaryotic organisms to restrict virus replication as well as the strategies viruses employ to counter such restrictions. He obtained the following awards and honors: Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Fellowship, Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award, Govenor General's Academic Gold Medal, Izaak Walton Killam Scholar, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship, Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction.
