John's College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions and a Vincentian Research Fellow. He has also served as the interim director of the Institute for Biotechnology and the chair of the Institutional Biosafety committee at St. Johns. A molecular biologist with specialties in protein biochemistry, bioinformatics, proteomics, and toxicology, Dr. Gillespie leads his own research lab focused on creating affordable high-tech proteomic methods for small laboratories. He teaches gene technology, public health, human anatomy and physiology, and has experience from academia and industry to public health policy. He holds a Ph.D. in oncological sciences from the University of Utah and is currently a Reactome editor, a multinational bioinformatic project. Dr. Gillespie has been developing tools for and teaching science for twenty years.