Allen I. Laskin, Ph.D., is President of Laskin/Lawrence Associates. He has previously served as the Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer of Ethigen Corporation and President of Matrix Research Laboratories. Among his honors, Dr. Laskin has received the Charles Thom Research Award, presented by the Society for Industrial Microbiology. His work in microbial transformations of steroids led to two dozen patents and a number of publications while working at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research between 1962 and 1969. Dr. Laskin is Senior Editor of The Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Co-Editor of Advances in Applied Microbiology. Dr. Laskin received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1956.