David H. Thompson is a professor of organic chemistry at Purdue University. He earned his B.S. in chemistry at the University of Missouri–Columbia and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Colorado State University. Professor Thompson is a member of the Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research and has pioneered the development of transiently stable drug and nucleic acid delivery systems by merging supramolecular chemistry and reaction mechanism concepts. His current research is focused on the continuous synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients using telescoped flow chemistry techniques, the development of bioresponsive self-assembling materials for targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics, and accelerated protein structure determination by cryoelectron microscopy using novel materials and sample preparation techniques.