Dr. Robert M. Brosh, Jr., received his B.S. in Chemistry from Bethany College, M.S. in Biochemistry from Texas A & M University, and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on DNA Helicases at the National Institute on Aging, NIH. Dr. Brosh's group studies rare hereditary diseases characterized by accelerated aging and elevated cancer incidence. His research program investigates the importance of helicases in the replication stress response, DNA repair, and other facets of biology including mitochondrial and nuclear genomic instability, mutation, cellular senescence, and inflammation.