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MBL Trustees Elect New Members
The Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory elected several new Board members at their November 8, 2003, meeting. Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D. of New York, New York, was elected to the Class of 2007; Martin D. Gruss of Palm Beach, Florida, to the Class of 2006; Kurt Isselbacher, M.D., of Newton, Massachusetts, to the Class of 2007; Darcy Kelley, of Sag Harbor, New York, to the Class of 2007; R. Dana Ono, of Concord, Massachusetts, to the Class of 2005; Jean “JeJe” Pierce, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, to the Class of 2007; and James A. Sharp, of Katonah, New York, to the Class of 2004.
Thomas S. Crane is a member of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., serving the firm’s Boston and Washington, DC, offices. Prior to this, Mr. Crane had been a partner with Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, managing the firm’s Massachusetts health care practice. Mr. Crane became nationally known for his work in the area of health care fraud and abuse during his work at the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. In particular, he gained recognition as a prosecutor in the Hanlester Network joint venture case and as the principal author of the anti-kickback safe harbor regulations. Mr. Crane has written articles and delivered numerous lectures critiquing government fraud and abuse enforcement policies. Mr. Crane received a B.A. from Harvard, a Masters of Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and his J.D. from Antioch School of Law. He is a Trustee and Vice president of the Friendship Fund, Inc. and has served as a Trustee for the Institute of Current World Affairs, Hanover, New Hampshire and the Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury, Connecticut. Mr. Crane has been a member of the MBL’s Council of Visitors member since 1995 and had previously served as Clerk of the MBL Corporation since 2000. His family has had a summer home in Woods Hole since the early 1900s.
Gerald D. Fischbach is Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Dr. Fischbach received his M.D. degree in 1965 from Cornell University Medical School and interned at the University of Washington Hospital. He began his research career at the National Institutes of Health in 1966, serving until 1973. He was subsequently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, first as Associate Professor of Pharmacology from 1973 to 1978 and then as Professor until 1981. From 1981 to 1990, Dr. Fishbach was the Edison Professor of Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine. In 1990, he returned to Harvard Medical School where he was the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and Chairman of the Neurobiology Departments of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital until 1998. He served as Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Fischbach is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Past President of Society for Neuroscience. He has been an MBL Corporation Member since 1976, taught in the Neurobiology course from 1979 to 1988, and served as MBL Trustee from 1982 to 1990, and 1992 to 1993.
Martin D. Gruss is Senior Partner of Gruss & Co., a private international investment firm based in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from New York University School of Law in 1967. He is a member of the Bar Association of the State of New York. Mr. Gruss is a Director of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation and Chairman of the Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation and the Gruss Life Monument Foundation. In addition, he is a Trustee of the Lawrenceville School, a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School, a member of the Board of Directors of the Guggenheim Museum, and Trustee of the Inner City Scholarship Endowment Fund. Mr. Gruss is also a member of the Chairman’s Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Patron of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is a former Trustee of St. Bernard’s School, Lenox Hill Hospital, and the Whitney Museum.
Kurt Isselbacher received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1946 and an M.D. in 1950. He completed both his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and was subsequently a National Institutes of Health Investigator from 1953 to 1956. He returned to Boston to serve as chief of the gastrointestinal unit at MGH from 1957 to 1989. From 1987 to 2003 he was Director of the MGH Cancer Center and was named Director Emeritus in 2003. During his tenure at Harvard, he was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, and served on various committees, most notably as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Department of Medicine from 1968 to 1997. Dr. Isselbacher is a member of the American College of Physicians, the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, American Gastroenterology Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine. He is also the recipient of several awards for distinguished achievement and the editor of one of the major textbooks of medicine, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Dr. Isselbacher has been a member of the MBL Corporation since 1963.
Darcy Kelley received her A.B. from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1970 and her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University in 1975. She has been on the faculty at Columbia since 1982 and currently serves as Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Director of the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology & Behavior, and faculty member in the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation. In September 2002, Dr. Kelley was one of twenty scientists appointed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to receive $1 million over the next four years to bring the creativity they have shown in the lab to the undergraduate classroom. She is creating a course called Frontiers in Science, with lectures and discussion sections led by graduate students, on topics such as the origins of life and how the brain works. Dr. Kelley directed the MBL’s Neural Systems and Behavior course from 1985 to 1989 and previously served on the MBL’s Board of Trustees in the Class of 1999.
R. Dana Ono is Managing Director of Life Sciences at VIMAC Ventures LLC, a Boston-based venture capital firm that invests primarily in emerging growth companies located in the northeastern United States and Canada. His experience includes over 20 years of senior management in public and private biotech companies. Most recently, he was a co-founder, President, and CEO of IntraImmune Therapies, Inc., a biotechnology company which he sold to Abgenix, Inc. in 2000. Prior to heading IntraImmune, he was founder and principal manager of several successful early stage biotech companies in the Boston area. A founding director of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, Inc., Dr. Ono is a frequent spokesperson for the biotechnology industry. He has authored a number of scientific articles and edited the book, The Business of Biotechnology—From the Bench to the Street. Dr. Ono received his A.B. from Johns Hopkins in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He is an alumnus of MBL’s Developmental Biology and Electron Micrography courses.
Jean “JeJe” Pierce is a resident of Wellesley and Woods Hole, and Boca Grande, Florida. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heritage Museum & Gardens in Sandwich, serves on the boards of Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire; Friends of the Community Center, Boca Grande, Florida; Community Advisory & Information Counsel, Boca Grande; and is President of The Boca Grande Women’s Club. Mrs. Pierce received her B. A. in Sociology from Colby Sawyer College. Her late husband, Bob, served on the MBL Board of Trustees from 1990 to 1993. Mrs. Pierce has served on the MBL’s Board of Trustees in the Classes of 1999 and 2003.
James A. Sharp became President and General Manager of Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc. in 1999, the culmination of a 25-year career at Zeiss. Mr. Sharp began his career as a Zeiss service engineer and moved up through various regional and national managerial positions, becoming President of the Microscope Division in 1991. After spending four years at Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH in Germany as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Microscopy Business Unit, Mr. Sharp returned to the U.S. to take over as head of Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, where he has achieved significant sales growth within a mature market. He holds an Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and he also received credit for business management and finance courses from several institutions including the University of Chicago, Columbia, and Babson College. Mr. Sharp is a member of the Board of Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc. and Cellomics, Inc. in Pittsburgh and resides in Katonah, New York.
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