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Appendix C: Participant Biosketches
Appendix C: Participant Biosketches
Pages 121-142
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He received his undergraduate A.B. degree in biochemical sciences from Princeton University summa cum laude, and his M.D.
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and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, and chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.
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He also has a keen interest in science policy and the public understanding of science. He has held a wide variety of advisory and consultancy posts with government departments, pharmaceutical companies, and international aid agencies.
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Dr. Chyba currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee for International Security and Arms Control, on the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group, and chairs the National Research Council's Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars.
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(NAS, IOM) , is professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.
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126 APPENDIX C tious Diseases Research (1997) , and the Robert Koch Prize from Germany (2000)
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APPENDIX C 127 cial Agent, he retired from the FBI in November 2002. During his FBI career, he was assigned to the Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York field divisions, and to the national security, (forensic)
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128 APPENDIX C numerous advisory committees and boards. She is a member of the MIT Corporation and was the President of the MIT Alumni/ae Association 2003-2004.
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He is invited routinely to be the keynote speaker at a wide variety of academic, corporate, investment, and government meetings to discuss the impact of biotechnology and genetics on healthcare and the challenges posed by bioterrorism.
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He has served as an advisor or consultant to a variety of national and international organizations, governmental and nongovernmental, including the World Health Organization, other parts of the United Nations system, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the UK National Authority for the Chemical Weapons Convention. In association with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, he directs the UK end of the Harvard Sussex Program (HSP)
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APPENDIX C 131 Program Director of the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health. He directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.
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degree) and Harvard University (M.P.H., M.S.)
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. From 1983 to 1993 he worked with chemical, biological, and nuclear arms control negotiations for the Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva.
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. He has a Master's degree in Statistics from UNAM, Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute.
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. His main current scientific research interest is the development of analytical methods to support verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
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He is chairman of the Board of the Structural Genomics Consortium, a director of Diamond Light Source and the Conway Institute, and a trustee of the Institute of Cancer Research and the Scottish Crop Research Institute. Janet K.A.
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representative for the Global Health Action Group Laboratory Network, and an expert for the Biological Weapons Convention Expert Meeting on Biosecurity, 2003. She is involved in efforts to develop alternative technologies for CD4 enumeration through the WHO.
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Decio Ripandelli graduated in 1981 in Natural Sciences and Experimental Geology at the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris. In January of 1982 he joined AGIP, the Italian national oil company, and started his career with the United Nations system in August of 1984, by joining a technical assistance project in Tanzania.
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His research interests lie in the application of genome-level targeted technologies to understand how genetic differences at both the cellular and organismal level can influence the development of various diseases and other complex phenotypes. He received his B.A.
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in Singapore. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals such as Cell, Science, Molecular Microbiology, and Genome Research.
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He served as permanent representative to the OPCW Preparatory Commission and as governor of the IAEA's Board of Governors. He has been the chairman of the CTBT Preparatory Commission's subsidiary body on administrative, financial and legal issues since 1997.
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