Brent Stanfield, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, where he directs the Stanfield Lab. His research centers on the development of tractable small animal models of virus-associated cancers, with the goal of making oncogenic virus biology accessible to genetic and therapeutic interrogation in vivo. His work spans all three subfamilies of the Herpesviridae (alpha, beta, and gamma herpesviruses), an unusually broad footprint that allows him to draw comparative insight across viral pathogenesis, latency, and reactivation, and to connect those mechanisms to malignant transformation. By combining genetically engineerable virus systems with modern genome editing approaches, his lab aims to build preclinical platforms that support both mechanistic discovery and the evaluation of antiviral and anticancer interventions.