Knox Van Dyke is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at West Virginia School of Medicine, Morgantown, USA. He obtained his A.B. in chemistry from Knox College –Galesburg IL in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Saint Louis University in 1966 under Dr. Philip Katzman in the Nobel prize Department of Biochemistry of Dr. Edward A Doisy, the discoverer of vitamin K and the estrogens.