Douglas A. Weigent earned a B.A. degree in biology from Western Washington University and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in micrology and immunology from the University of Washington....view moreDouglas A. Weigent earned a B.A. degree in biology from Western Washington University and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in micrology and immunology from the University of Washington. His postdoctoral work was conducted at the University of Minnesota (Hormel Institute) and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. His faculty work was conducted in the departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama. Although he has no formal religious education, he has had a strong personal interest in church life and Bible study for many years. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, Diane, to whom he has been married for 48 years. They have one daughter, Rachel, and one grandson, Christian.view less