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Dr. McAlister has served as Chief Executive Officer and Director since May 1994. Dr. McAlister obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Tarleton State College in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and X-ray Crystallography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1978. After a two-year post-doctoral appointment, Dr. McAlister joined the staff of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1980, where he served first as Associate Director of the MMS-X National Collaborative Research Program and then as Research Associate in Computer Science. Dr. McAlister began working for Tripos in 1982 under contract to supervise software development for molecular graphics applications. In 1984, he joined Tripos as Director of Software Research and Development. In 1987, Dr. McAlister was named Vice President, Research and Development, and in 1988 was promoted to President. | 