Moses Leavens joined the McLaughlin Research Institute and TouroCOM Montana in 2023 as an assistant professor. He received his PhD degree in Biochemistry & Biophysics in 2019 with Bruce Bowler at the University of Montana. From 2019-2022, he was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Byron Caughey at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Rocky Mountain Laboratories.

Education

• M.S., Ph.D., Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Montana
• B.A., B.S. Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, University of Providence
• A.S. General Education, Great Falls College, Montana State University
• Postdoctoral fellow, Lab of Neurological Infections and Immunity, NIAID, NIH

Research

Research interests: neurodegenerative disease proteinopathies, protein folding (abnormal protein conformers, protein modifications), and biomarkers.