Charles R. Wira is a scientist who is specialized in endocrinology and mucosal immunology as it relates to the immune system at mucosal surfaces of the female reproductive tract. Wira received his B.S. in 1962 in Animal Husbandry from Delaware Valley College (now Delaware Valley University), Doylestown, PA and his M.S. in Physiology from Michigan State University in 1966. Wira came to Dartmouth College in 1966, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970. From 1970 to 1972 he did his postdoctoral training at the University of Paris, France, studying molecular mechanism of estrogen action in the uterus. He returned to Dartmouth as an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and was promoted to professor in 1985.