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Volume 12, No. 2, Summer 02 | Return to Table of Contents
Corporation Elects Two New Members to the Science Council
The MBL Corporation elected Paul De Weer and Stephen L. Hajduk to serve three-year terms on the Science Council. De Weer was elected as an At-Large Member; Hajduk will represent the Bay Paul Center. Robert Palazzo’s term as Chair of the Science Council was renewed at the Council’s August 3rd meeting. The Science Council is composed of Corporation Members who are elected by the membership to represent various research and educational programs at the MBL. The Council is advisory to the Director and CEO on all matters pertaining to research and education.
Dr. Paul De Weer holds an M.D. from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and a Ph.D. (Biophysics) from the University of Maryland, and is Professor of Physiology (chairman, 1990-1999) at the University of Pennsylvania. He first came to the MBL as a postdoctoral fellow of L.J. Mullins in 1966 and has spent every summer here since then, studying the sodium pump of squid giant axons. He became a Corporation Member in 1970, and has served on the nominating, space, and radiation safety committees. He is a member of the Biophysical and American Physiological Societies, a fellow of the AAAS, and a former president of the Society of General Physiologists. He received a Research Career Development Award (1971-1973) and two consecutive Javits Awards (1984-1998) from the NIH, and an Interuniversity Chair from the Francqui Foundation (Belgium).
Dr. Stephen L. Hajduk received his B.S. from the University of Georgia in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 1980. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam in 1979, and a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University from 1980 to 1983 before joining the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was promoted to full-professor in 1991 and was named founding director of the Center for Community Outreach Development in 1998. He will join the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the MBL as Director of the Ellison Foundation Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Global Infectious Diseases in 2003. His research of African sleeping sickness has been featured in Science, Nature, and Cell; reported in BBC News, BBC International News, and Associated Press Service. He serves on Scientific Review Boards for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Disease, the National Research Council, and the Burroughs Wellcome Advisory Board for Infectious Diseases. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Parasitology, International, Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology and Experimental Parasitology. He is a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar in Molecular Parasitology and a Fogarty International Scholar. Hajduk is the Principal Investigator on three active NIH research grants and is also Principal Investigator on four active teaching and outreach grants from NIH, NSF, HHMI, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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