Dr Lee Thurston - Chemical Biology/Molecular Pharmaceutics/Biochemistry

Lee S. Thurston earned his B.S. in Biochemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry & Natural Products from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His doctoral work involved the development of DNA topoisomerase II inhibitors for potential use in cancer chemotherapy. Postdoctoral positions at Mount Sinai Medical Center, designing and synthesizing inhibitors of of angiotensin III formation, and at The University of Texas at Austin, inventing new antitumor vinblastine analogues, added to his publication and patent record. In 1991, he began work as a science editor for the American Chemical Society journals division and in 2006 as a freelance science editor/writer. His reviews of new laboratory instrumentation have been published in The Scientist.