Dwight E. Adams

Dr. Dwight Adams is a scientific advisor for DNA Solutions. Dr. Dwight E. Adams, formerly director of the FBI Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has become the first Director of the University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute. The institute will lead continuing education in forensic science for professionals and enhance UCO's undergraduate and graduate forensic science program. Dr. Adams recently retired from the FBI after serving as Director of the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. The FBI Laboratory consisted of 700 scientific, technical and response personnel and an operational budget of more than $100 million. The FBI Laboratory is the largest and most complex laboratory of its kind in the world. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award as Distinguished Executive; the highest award given in the Federal Government..

Dr. Adams was a member of the FBI's research team that developed the DNA techniques first used in 1988. He has testified as a DNA expert in federal, state and local courts for the prosecution and defense in excess of 130 times. He also served on the national DNA Advisory Board responsible for creating standards governing all DNA testing crime laboratories in the U.S and was a member of the Attorney General's National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. Dr. Adams oversaw the creation of the National DNA database linking 175 crime laboratories and responsible for solving or aiding more than 30,000 cases nationwide. He is the author of numerous scientific publications, mostly in the field of DNA technology applied to human identification.

Dr. Adams received his bachelor's in Biology from the University of Central Oklahoma and his masters in biology from Illinois State University. Dr. Adams also received his Ph.D. Botany from the University of Oklahoma.