Dr. Roger Woodgate has devoted his scientific career to understanding the molecular mechanisms of damage-induced mutagenesis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. He received his Ph.D., from the University of Sussex in Brighton England and for the past 18 years has worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

At the present time, Dr. Woodgate is chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Integrity in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.