Professional Experience

2008 - present: Chair, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duate, CA

2012 - Present: Professor of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2008 - 2012: Director Emeritus and Professor of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of  Hope, Duarte, CA

2000 - 2007: Director, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1994 - 1998: Founding Dean, City of Hope Graduate School, now named Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1993 - 1995: Director, Shared Resources of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1981 - 1987: Associate Director for Laboratory Research, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1994 - 2000: Chair, Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1981 - 1987: Chair, Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
 (In 1983 the City of Hope's research institute was renamed the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope)

1979 - 1981: Associate Chair, Division of Biology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1978 - 1995: Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA

1974 - 1983: Senior Research Scientist, Depatment of Molecular Biology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1969 - 1974: Associate Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1966 - 1969: Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA

1961 - 1966: Predoctoral Fellow, Biology Department, California Institute of Technology (CIT), Pasadena, CA 

Education and Training

1966, California Institute of Technology (CIT), Pasadena, Ph.D., Biochemistry

1961, University of California at Riverside. A.B., Chemistry

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 04/13

Honors and Awards

2008, Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology (CIT)

2006, National Academy of Sciences, Member

2004, Technology Leadership Award

1988, Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of California, Riverside

1985, Invited applicant for NCI Outstanding Investigator Award

1981, Gallery of Achievement Award, City of Hope

1979, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Research Award

1966 - 1969, National Institutes of Health, Postdoctoral Fellow

1961 - 1964, National Science Foundation, Predoctoral Fellow

1960, High honors in chemistry, University of California, Riverside