Pharmaceutics & Novel Drug Delivery Systems

Biography

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, a Harvard Hospital, in Boston. He was also a Pharmacology Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Julius Axelrod. He is presently Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Medical School. He also Co-Directs the Pharmacogenomics Program of the Mayo Center for Individualized Medicine.

Research Interest

Dr. Weinshilboum’s research has focused on pharmacogenomics, with over 470 published manuscripts on that topic. In recent decades he has applied genome-wide genomics and other “omics” techniques to study drug response—for example, the drug therapy of depression. Dr. Weinshilboum has been the recipient of many awards including an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association, a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Clinical Pharmacology, the Oscar B. Hunter Award of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the ASPET Harry Gold Award, the Edvard Poulsson Award from the Norwegian Pharmacology Society and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Kansas. Dr. Weinshilboum has served as a member of the Advisory Councils for two US NIH Institutes, the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)—the NIH Institute where Pharmacology is based--and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)—the NIH Institute that sponsored the Human Genome Project.