Dr. David Norwood has served as the Deputy Director, Military Infectious Diseases Research Program (MIDRP) at the US Army Medical Research and Development Command (MRDC) since October 2016. As the Deputy Director of MIDRP, he supports the Army and DoD’s programmatic investment and planning in infectious diseases research efforts.

David received his doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University in 1996. While at Lehigh his scientific experience included the characterization of the genome of the anaerobic pathogen Clostridium difficile. He received postdoctoral training in Molecular Virology at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health (NIH) where he was an NIH Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellow recipient. At the NIH he developed methods for measuring cell turnover in longitudinal clinical samples from HIV infected adults, children, monkeys and chimpanzees; and investigated the receptor and co-receptor interactions involved in HIV entry. He was awarded an NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence for work on the mechanism of HIV entry into macrophages. He joined the Diagnostic Systems Division at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in 1999 as a molecular biologist where he spent 17 years focusing on developing diagnostics for the Chemical and Biological Defense Program. David has significant expertise in molecular assay development, including previously successful work on identifying molecular antibiotic resistance markers in biological threat agents. He served as the Chief of the Systems Development Branch of the Diagnostics System Division at USAMRIID for 6 years, overseeing the molecular diagnostic program. His USAMRIID career culminated as the Division Chief of the Diagnostics System Division for 6 years, providing oversight and expertise to the entire diagnostic program at USAMRIID. David led the research effort that resulted in the Emergency Use Authorization for DoD’s Ebola assay during the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. While at USAMRIID he received the Joint Research Coordinator of the year award from the Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Defense Standardization Program, and a Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner's Special Citation for his work in diagnostics.

David enjoys swimming, golf, cooking and spending time with his family. He is married to Colonel (Ret.) Jeanne Norwood and has three daughters Karina (26), Kylie (22) and Addison (6).