David D. Roberts received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1976 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry in 1983 from The University of Michigan. After postdoctoral training at Michigan and in the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he became a Research Chemist there in 1987. In 1988 he assumed his current position as Chief of the Biochemical Pathology Section of the Laboratory of Pathology in the Center for Cancer Research of the National Cancer Institute, NIH in Bethesda, MD. He has served on a number of peer review panels and journal editorial boards. His recent research focuses on the role of thrombospondins in regulating vascular cell behavior and redox signaling, regulation of tumor immunity by thrombospondin-1, and host-pathogen interactions that contribute to disseminated Candida albicans infections.