Richard Weinshilboum

Dr. Weinshilboum received B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, followed by residency training in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was also a pharmacology Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He began his affiliation with the Mayo Medical School and Mayo Clinic in 1972, where he is presently Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine and Mary Lou and John H. Dasburg Professor of Cancer Genomics Research. He currently directs the Pharmacogenomics Program of the Mayo Center for Individualized Medicine and is co-Principal Investigator of the long-standing US NIH Pharmacogenomics Research Network Center at the Mayo Clinic.