Victoria K. Baxter, DVM, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, TX, USA. She received her bachelors of science (BS) degree in genetics in 2006 and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 2010 from Texas A&M University. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in laboratory animal medicine, gaining Diplomate status with the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2014, and obtained her PhD in viral immunology in 2016 at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prior to joining the faculty at Texas Biomed. Her lab studies the pathogenesis and host immune response to emerging infectious diseases, particularly the interplay between protective and pathogenic mechanisms of the immune response to viral infection. She is a member of several professional societies, including the American Society for Virology, the American Association of Immunologists, and the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science.