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Koehn is the author of more than 100 papers and co-editor of "The Evolution of Genes and Proteins." From 1970-92, he was professor of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was also dean of biological sciences (1978-88) and director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Biotechnology for New York State (1983-92). Koehn was the vice president for research at the University of Utah from 1992 until last August. Koehn has been a member of the boards of directors of several organizations, including the Council on Biotechnology, Association of Biotechnology Companies, Long Island Forum for Technology, Long Island High Technology Incubator Management Corporation, New York Biotechnology Association, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Organization for Tropical Studies, Advisory Council to the Vice-Chair of the New York Legislative Commission on Science and Technology and the Commission on Biomedical Research of the New York Academy of Medicine. He served eight years on the Utah Governor's Council on Science and Technology, and as president of the University of Utah Research Foundation, Inc. He is a member of the Investment Advisory Board of Utah Ventures II, chair of the board of trustees of the Associated Western Universities, Inc., a member of the executive committee of the Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education of NASULGC and a member of the board of directors of the Utah Life Sciences Industry Association. Koehn has lectured on evolutionary genetics, biotechnology policy, entrepreneurial universities and the responsible conduct of scientific research in more than 20 countries. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a NATO Senior Science Fellow and the recipient of a number of awards for leadership in the New York biotechnology industry. In 1991, he was recipient of the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award from Ernst & Young/Merrill Lynch/ Inc. Magazine. The second candidate
is P. Michael Conn, associate director and senior scientist at the
Oregon Regional Primate Research Center and special assistant to
the president and professor of physiology and pharmacology at Oregon
Health Sciences University. Conn has held his current post at the primate research center since 1994. He was appointed to his position at the Oregon Health Sciences University in 1995 after serving as associate provost in 1994-95. From 1984-94, he was professor and head of the department of pharmacology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. From 1978-84, he was on the pharmacology faculty at Duke University Medical Center. Since 1996, Conn has served as president of STAR Park, Inc., an academic organization developing a 600-acre science park in Beaverton, Ore. He is a member of the American Physiological Society, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Endocrine Society, International Neuropeptide Society, International Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience and Texas Society of Electron Microscopy. He serves on the board of directors of both the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the Hormone Foundation. He is currently editor-in-chief of several journals, including The Receptors, Endocrine and Contemporary Endocrinology, and has edited a number of others in past years. He has authored or co-authored more than 240 scholarly papers and articles and edited or written or co-authored nearly 90 books, volumes and chapters. He is an honorary member of the Sociedad Chilena de Endocrinologia Y Metabolismo and a member of the Mexican National Academy of Medicine. His other honors include a 1993 MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health and the Miguel Aleman Prize, the science medal of Mexico, which he received in 1988. He also holds a patent for a method of regulating hormone function or releases. |
