Discoverer of Coenzyme A Tranferase Deficiency , as disease of infants, J. Tyson Tildon and has also made major contributions to the establishment of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. His research interests include developmental neurochemistry and the processes that control metabolism.

James Tyson Tildon was born April 7, 1931, in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Morgan State College in 1954 and then worked for five years as a research assistant at Sinai Hospital, where he developed and used biochemical techniques to study vitamin deficiencies in humans and animal models. Subsequently, he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris and, upon his return, matriculated to the doctoral program in biochemistry at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1965, Tildon accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University...