DR. BRUCE BUDOWLE

Retired Director of the Center for Human Identification and

Regents Professor at the University of North Texas

Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas 



Dr. Bruce Budowle received a PhD in Genetics in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. From 1979-1982, Dr. Budowle was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Working under a National Cancer Institute fellowship, he carried out research predominately on genetic risk factors for diseases such as insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, melanoma, and acute lymphocytic leukemia. From 1983-2009, Dr. Budowle worked at the FBI’s Laboratory Division to carry out research, development, and validation of methods for forensic biological analyses. He has published more than 740 articles, made more than 800 presentations, and testified in well over 300 criminal cases in the areas of molecular biology, population genetics, data interpretation, statistics, quality assurance, and forensic biology. In addition, he has authored or co-authored books on molecular biology techniques, electrophoresis, protein detection, forensic genetics, and microbial forensics.

Dr. Budowle recently retired as Director of the Center for Human Identification and Regents Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas where his efforts focused on the areas of human forensic identification and microbial forensics with substantial emphasis in genomics and next generation sequencing. He also served as a commissioner on the Texas Forensic Science Commission and on the Texas Governor’s Sexual Assault Survivor’s’ Task Force. He continues to research and work in the areas of forensic genomics and contributes to supporting humanitarian efforts via human identification. He currently is a visiting professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Helsinki, an adjunct professor in the Forensic Science Institute at Radford University, and a consultant with Othram, Inc.