Dr. John S. Whorff, OD, earned the degree of Doctor of Optometry from the oldest optometry school in the country, the New England College of Optometry in Boston, Massachusetts. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from California State University, Stanislaus and earned his Ph.D. in Zoology in 1992 from Texas A&M University. At his lab in the Biology Department at College Station, he obtained significant funding from Mobil Oil and the state of Texas to develop imaging software and published several academic papers.