Dr. Moorthy received his M.Sc in Biochemistry from the Andhra University in 1981, and Ph.D. (1988) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. After completing his postdoctoral training at the Medical College of Wisconsin (1988-90), D. Moorthy joined the Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine as a research associate, and was a junior faculty member at Baylor in the early 1990s. He joined the section of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor in 1995. A major goal of the research conducted in Dr. Moorthy’s laboratory is to investigate the mechanisms of regulation of cytochromes P450 (CYP) enzymes by hyperoxia, in relation to hyperoxic lung injury and inflammation. He has been working in the general area of cytochrome P450 and drug metabolism for the past 37 years. He has published extensively in the area of P450, drug metabolism, and oxidative stress. Thus far, he has published over 120 peer-reviewed research papers. He has garnered over 45 million dollars in research support since 1998. He earned tenure in 2005, and was promoted to full professor with tenure in 2011. Currently, he is the Director of Neonatology Research Program at Baylor. Recently, he was appointed the Kurt Randerath MD endowed Chair at Texas Children’s hospital, Houston, TX. He is Principal Investigator and Director of the newly established Superfund Research Program grant from the NIEHS.