PhD Boston University
BS Fairfield University
Curriculum Vitae

Colin R. Campbell is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Associate Director of the University's Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences. Dr. Campbell is also an Executive Faculty member of the University of Minnesota Biomedical Genomics Center. In addition to mentoring several PhD students in his laboratory, Dr. Campbell is course director of several undergraduate and graduate classes offered at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Campbell received his BS degree in Biology from Fairfield University in Connecticut in 1981, and his PhD degree in Biochemistry from Boston University in 1987. He pursued post-doctoral studies in molecular genetics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, where he was also appointed an Instructor of Molecular Genetics. Dr. Campbell joined the University of Minnesota Pharmacology faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1992 and was promoted to his current rank in 1998.

Dr. Campbell's laboratory interest is the relationship between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA instability and human pathologies including cancer and aging. Lab research has been published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, and other journals and has been presented at a numerous National and International Scientific meetings. Dr. Campbell's research has most recently been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society.