David W. Hein holds appointments as Peter K. Knoefel Endowed Chair of Pharmacology, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Distinguished University Scholar and Special Assistant to the Provost for Strategic Planning.  He leads the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and directs the NIH-funded training grant program in environmental health sciences.  Dr. Hein previously served as the founding director of the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program at Morehouse School of Medicine and chaired Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology at Morehouse School of Medicine and the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences prior to his appointment at UofL in 1997. He was appointed as Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor at the University of North Dakota,  has received outstanding teaching awards at Morehouse School of Medicine and the University of North Dakota, an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Michigan, the Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award from the University of North Dakota and the University of Louisville, the Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford (UK), and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (France).  He has served on many government and industry review panels and his research been funded by the National Institutes of Health and other federal and private agencies for over twenty-five years.  His research publications have been cited over 6000 times (h-index=41) in the scientific literature.   In addition to training and mentoring graduate, professional, undergraduate and postgraduate students, Dr. Hein lectures in courses of the School of Medicine, School of Dentistry and School of Nursing.