Barry P. Rosen is currently Distinguished University Professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University in Miami, Florida since 2009. He was Associate Dean for Basic Research and Graduate Programs from 2009-2016. For 22 years he was Chair and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. He received his B.S. from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1965 and his M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1969) from the University of Connecticut and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University (1969-1971). He was on the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland for 15 years. For four decades his laboratory has investigated the mechanisms of transport and detoxification of transition metals, heavy metals and metalloids in bacteria, yeast, protozoans, mammals and plants. He identified the pathways of arsenic uptake, efflux, biotransformation and regulation in organisms from E. coli to humans.