After gaining his PhD in Genetics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1979, and undertaking postdoctoral work in immunogenetics, in 1983 Dr. Budowle began a distinguished career in forensic genetics at the FBI laboratory at Quantico in 1983.

Dr. Budowle recently became Executive Director of the Institute of Investigative Genetics and Professor in the Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas. His current efforts focus on the areas of human forensic identification, microbial forensics, and emerging infectious disease.

He has published more than 460 articles, testified in well over 200 criminal cases in the areas of molecular biology, population genetics, statistics, quality assurance, and forensic biology, and authored or co-authored books on molecular biology techniques, electrophoresis, protein detection, and microbial forensics.