William F. Bosron

Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of Medicine

Indiana University, Indianapolis

Dr. Bosron received his B.S. from Bowling Green State University and Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from University of Cincinnati in Ohio. His postdoctoral training was in the Biophysics Research Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1975. He was a visiting professor in the Institute of Biotechnology at University of Cambridge in 1990.

Dr. Bosron's main area of research is in the enzymology of alcohol and drug metabolism. His laboratory studies the structure and function of alcohol dehydrogenases involved in ethanol metabolism and carboxylesterases involved in cocaine, heroin, Ritalin and anti-cancer prodrug metabolism. He received a MERIT award from NIAAA for alcohol dehydrogenase studies. He has served on editorial boards of journals in his field and NIH study sections.

Dr. Bosron served the Medical School as Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies from 1994-2005. He focused on restructuring the combined M.D./Ph.D. program and developing new graduate training programs at the School. He is the director of a new Biotechnology Training Program that was developed as part of the Indiana Genomics Initiative project (INGEN).

Office: (317) 274-3441; E-mail: wbosron@iupui.edu