Fred W. Scott, Professor Emeritus from Cornell University, grew up on a small dairy farm, graduated from UMass-Amherst, and received DVM and PhD degrees from Cornell University. He practiced veterinary medicine in Rutland, VT, received an NIH post-doctoral fellowship to train in virology at Cornell University, was a faculty member of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine for 32 years, and was the founding director of the Cornell Feline Health Center.