[1] Quay received his education from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed his doctorate in 1975.
[2] Quay worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Nobel Laureate Har Gobind Khorana at MIT.
[3] He has previously worked as a faculty member of Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine.
[5] In September 2021, Quay published a book, The Origin of the Virus: The hidden truths behind the microbe that killed millions of people, along with Angus Dalgleish and Paolo Barnard.
[6] He is also an author of a book named Stay Safe: A Physician's Guide to Survive Coronavirus.