Norman Buroker was born in Portland, OR, USA in 1943. He received his Bachelors of Science in General Science with a major in Chemistry and minors in Biology and Mathematics from Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS in 1968. He worked two years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Seattle, WA and then entered the University of Washington where he received a Master of Science (1975) and Doctorate of Philosophy (1978) in Fisheries with emphasis in Biochemistry and Genetics. He took a position with as a Research Associate at the Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, University of Maryland in 1979 and then was awarded a Busch Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1981 with Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, NJ. In 1983, he made a career change into medicine and took a position as a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1987, he took a position as a Research Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington. In 2003, he moved to a Research Scientist position in the Department of Cardiology at Seattle Children’s Hospital and in 2009 he moved back to the Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington where he currently works as a Senior Research Scientist. He has extensive research experience in molecular and population genetics and has several manuscripts involving these disciplines covering a wide variety of fields. His work in cardiology focused on nuclear and mitochondrial receptors in the mammalian heart and their association with metabolic genes. The research involved identifying and characterizing the PPAR response elements in promoter regions of target genes. Since returning to Pediatrics his research has changed to identifying mutations in genes associated with lysosomal storage diseases in newborns. In addition his research has also been involved with genetic studies of Han and Tibetan Chinese in high altitude environments. Also, he has published a number of papers involving SNPs, transcriptional factor binding sites, linkage disequilibrium among genes associated with human disease. All publications can be found on his Research Gate page.

Human Evolution, Population Genetics, High Altitude, Transcription Factors, Gender and Science, Gender Studies, Metabolism, Evolutionary Biology, Human Genetics, Physiology, PCR, Medical Genetics, DNA