Biography
Dr. Bushweller earned his B.A. at Dartmouth College inn 1984 majoring in chemistry. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 working in the lab of Paul Bartlett on the synthesis of enzyme inhibitors. He subsequently was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow from 1990-1993 in the lab of Nobel laureate Kurt Wüthrich at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland working on NMR based structures of glutaredoxins. He was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College from 1993-1998. He subsequently was Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics from 1998 to the present. He is currently a Program Leader for the Cancer Biology program in the NCI designated Cancer Center at the University of Virginia. His lab has a long history of structure/function studies of transcription factor drivers in cancer, particularly in leukemia. His lab also has been at the forefront of efforts to develop small molecule inhibitors targeting transcription factor drivers in cancer.