Professional Experience

2000 - present, Senior Vice President and Founding Director, Center for Applied Technology Development; Director, Center for Biomedicine and Genetics; Professor-in-Residence, Department of Virology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2000 - 2007, Director, National Gene Vector Laboratory

1998 - 2000, Vice President, Technology Development; Director, Center for Biomedicine and Genetics; Professor-in-Residence, Department of Virology, Beckman Research Institute

1997 - 1998, Senior Manager, Clinical Development, HIV Project Leader Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boulder, CO

1994 - 1997, Senior Scientist, Gene Transfer, HIV Project Leader, Restenosis Project Leader Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boulder, CO

1991 - 1994, Research Scientist II Genzyme Corp., Framingham, MA

1989 - 1991, Research Staff Fellow, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes Of Health, Bethesda, MD

Education and Training

1985 - 1989, Department of Microbiology/Immunology Albany Medical College, Ph.D., Albany, NY

1980 - 1985, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, BS, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

1974 - 1976, United States Air Force Academy, Mathematics/Computer Science, Colorado Springs, CO

Honors and Awards

2006, FDA Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee

2005 - present, Council member, Amgen Bioprocess Center, Keck Graduate Institute

2004 - present, Ad Hoc analyst, Jacobs Capital Group, LLC

2005 - present, FDA’s advisory working group on lentivirus vector standards

2004 - 2006, Consultant, Cornucopia Pharmaceuticals, Inc

2003 - 2006, Acting CEO, Aliva Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

2002 - 2004, Acting CEO, GenBasix, Inc.

2004, Consultant, Louisiana Gene Therapy Consortium

2002 - 2005, Co-chairman, SCBC Investor Conference Selection Committee

2002 - 2004, FDA’s working advisory group on adenovirus reference standards

2000 - 2004, Board of Directors, Southern California Biomedical Council

1998 - 2003, Board of Directors, CellCity, LLC

1997, President’s Outstanding Achievement Award, Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

1993, Vice President’s Award for Scientific Achievement, Genzyme Corp. 

1989 - 1991, Research Staff Fellow, Molecular Hematology Branch, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD.  

1987 - 1989, Senior Research Scholar, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY.

1985 - 1987, Trustee Scholar, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

1984 - 1985, UCHSC Fellowship, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported. Last updated: 10/08.

Association of University Research Parks (AURP)

Drug Information Association (DIA)

American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)

National Gene Vector Laboratory Steering Committee (NGVL)