J. Tyson Tildon is a renowned neuroscientist and a dedicated advocate for public education in Baltimore. In two major scientific discoveries, Tildon identified a disease condition in infants called CoA Transfrase Deficiency and unlocked the role of ketone bodies in the central nervous system of infants. Tildon was the major architect of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Institute of the University of Maryland Department of Pediatrics, and his research has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health, amounting to more than $10 million. When his interests later turned to solving the problems plaguing the Baltimore City Public Schools, University of Maryland University College's technology-based approach to education attracted him to serve on the board.

Tildon served as director of pediatric research at the University of Maryland from 1972 to 1983, was promoted to the rank of full professor of pediatrics, had a secondary appointment to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and was associate dean for research and graduate studies from 1994 to 1999. He belongs to and has held leadership positions in a variety of professional societies, including the American Society of Neurochemistry and the American Society of Biological Chemists.

Tildon earned his BS degree at Morgan State University in 1954 and his PhD in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1965. He spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, and was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at Brandeis University and a Josiah Macy Scholar at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. At the University of Maryland, he was involved in numerous committees and served as chairman of the University Senate Review Committee.

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