Dr. Weinshilboum received B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, followed by Internal Medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Hospital. He was also a Pharmacology Research Associate at the US NIH in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Julius Axelrod. He is presently Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at the Mayo Medical School. Dr. Weinshilboum’s research has focused on pharmacogenomics. Dr. Weinshilboum has been the recipient of many awards including a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Clinical Pharmacology, the ASCPT Oscar B. Hunter Award, the ASPET Harry Gold Award and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Kansas. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Councils for two US NIH Institutes, NIGMS—the NIH Institute within which Pharmacology is based--and NHGRI, the NIH Institute that sponsored the Human Genome Project.