CDR Theron Hamilton

Department Head, Research & Development (R&D)

CDR Theron Hamilton, Ph.D., is the head of R&D at the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) in Jacksonville, FL. He is the first Navy Biochemist (1810D) to work at NECE since its founding. He received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Brown University in 2007. Graduate work was followed by a post-doctoral appointment in Brown University’s Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry Department. He was commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 2009 with follow-on tours at the Navy Drug Screening Lab, San Diego (Dep Dir Ops); the US Naval Academy (Asst Prof of Chem); Naval Medical Research Center’s Biological Defense Research Directorate (Head of Genomics & Bioinformatics and a Team Leader of a mobile biothreat-detection lab); and the Navy Drug Screening Laboratory, Jacksonville (Executive Officer). CDR Hamilton is also a founding and core member of the US Navy Surgeon General’s Science panel and co-author of BUMED’s monthly Naval Medical Intelligence Report. At NECE, CDR Hamilton’s team provides expertise in direct support of NECE’s operational activities and other DoD, USG, and academic agencies through cutting-edge genomics and bioinformatics analyses aimed at reducing vector-borne disease transmission.