Dr. Mark Jon Olsen is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University. Dr. Olsen graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a BS in Pharmaceutical Science in 1994 and attended graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Chemistry, where he worked under Dr. Brent Iverson and Dr. George Georgiou on the synthesis of fluorescent probes for high-throughput enzyme engineering in the Department of Chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2003. His research interests include ASPH, antiepileptogenic agents, inhibition of 2-oxoglutarate utilizing enzymes, and aspartyl-beta-hydroxylase inhibitors for anticancer treatment. Dr. Olsen is an active member of the American Chemical Society and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.