Michael Walters

Michael A. Walters is a Research Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota (UMN). He is also a director in the Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development in the same department. His primary focus is on advancing therapeutics to treat the cognitive dysfunction that is present in many neurological diseases. He has been at the UMN for almost 15 years. Prior to that he was part of the Chemistry Department at Pfizer (Ann Arbor Laboratories). His first career was in the Chemistry Department at Dartmouth College. He was the communicating author on “The Essential Medicinal Chemistry of Curcumin”, (Dr. Dahlin is a co-author) a manuscript that currently has been viewed over 120,000 times and cited over 800 times.