Professional Experience

2008 - present, Chair, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1999 - 2007, Director of the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope

1998 - 1999, Associate Director for Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

1994 - 2000, Chair, Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute

1994 - 1998, Founding Dean, City of Hope Graduate School of Biological Sciences 

1993 - 1995, Director, Shared Resources, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

1983 - 1987, Chair, Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute

1981 - 1987, Associate Director for Laboratory Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

1981 - 1983, Chair, Department of Biology, City of Hope

1979 - 1981, Associate Chair, Department of Biology, City of Hope

1978 - present, Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1974 - 1983, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology, City of Hope

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

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

1961 - 1966, Predoctoral Fellow, Biology Department, California Institute of Techechnology, Pasadena, CA

Education and Training

1966, California Institute of Technology, 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: 10/08.

Honors and Awards

2008, Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology

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