Meet the Guest Editor

Norman C. Waters obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from Drexel University (formerly Hahnemann University) working under the supervision of Professor Lawrence W. Bergman in the field of signal transduction and metabolic regulation in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. From 1997-2002, he served as Chief of Anti-Parasite Assay Development in the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and served as a member of the U.S. Army Antimalarial Drug Discovery Product Development Team. He held the position of Chief of Malaria Drug Discovery and Surveillance at the United States Army Research Unit-Kenya from 2002-2003. He currently serves as Chief of Malaria Drug Target Development in the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in addition to technical advisor to the U.S. Army malaria drug discovery efforts in Africa. His interests include: Malaria drug discovery, cell cycle control, cyclin dependent protein kinases, structure based drug design, drug target assay development and validation, signal transduction.