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David J. Galas, PhD is Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology and Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Battelle Memorial Institute, an international non-profit science and technology organization. He was previously Chancellor, Chief Scientific Officer and Norris Professor of Applied Life Science at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI), in Claremont CA. Before founding and developing KGI, a new research and educational institution in the applied life sciences, Dr. Galas served as President and Chief Scientific Officer of Seattle-based Chiroscience R&D Inc., a genomics and drug discovery company. This company was formed through the acquisition of Darwin Molecular Corporation, which Dr. Galas co-founded in 1993. Prior to his involvement in the biotechnology industry, Dr. Galas served as Director for Health and Environmental Research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, where he headed the DOE's Human Genome Project from 1990 to 1993, on leave from the University of Southern California, where he was Professor of Molecular Biology for twelve years, and directed the Molecular Biology section of the Biological Science Department. | 