Zach Burroughs

Zach Burroughs (born December 20, 1964) is an award-winning biochemical parasitologist. Most of his research is done at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Research Focus


Burroughs' research focuses on characterization of fatty acid metabolism in the prokaryotic organism Trypanosoma brucei brucei. This is the parasite that causes Nagana in cattle (the animal form of African Sleeping Sickness).

He first rose to prominence with a ground-breaking paper published in Science (journal), in which the first fragments of the Trypanosoma genome were published.

In addition to his university research, he currently serves as an off-site researcher of the international Trypanosoma Genome Project, a collaboration which hopes to fully sequence the parasite's genome within the next few years. This project involves researchers at Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Cambridge, University of Tokyo, University of Zurich, and many others.

Personal Life
In May 2007, Burroughs proposed to Brooke Manger, a researcher in the Clemson University Psychology Department. The ceremony will take place in Charleston, South Carolina.