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Quincy A. Quick, Ph.D.

Associate Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs and Chief Research Officer, Tennessee State University

Education:

  • B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Mexico State University
  • M.S., Biology, Virginia State University
  • Ph.D., Biology, Ferrum College

Background:

Quincy Quick is an experienced professor and researcher. He has served as the associate vice president of research and sponsored programs and chief research officer of Tennessee State University since 2022. He has been with TSU as a biology professor since 2013. Under Quick’s leadership, the institution reached its second highest total in awarded grants and contracts ($67,011,630) for this fiscal year. He also formerly served as the graduate program coordinator of the TSU Department of Biology.

Quick’s research focuses on novel drugs and molecular targets for the treatment of brain tumors. He has conducted this research through TSU, the Southern University of New Orleans, and at Grambling State University. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto, the Medical College of Virginia and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

In 2016, 2009 and 2008, Quick was honored with the Minority Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Ernest E. Just Endowed Professor of Biology at Grambling State University.

Field of Specialization: Molecular and Cellular Biology

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