February 2004, Vol. 13, No. 2| Return to Table of Contents


Trustees Elect New Members

The Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory elected several new Board members at their November 8, 2003, meeting.

Thomas S. Crane of Weston, Massachusetts, was elected to the Class of 2007. 
Mr. Crane co-coordinates the Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo’s Health Care Fraud and Abuse and Corporate Compliance practice group, serving the firm’s Boston and Washington, DC offices. He is nationally recognized as an authority on fraud and abuse. He had been Clerk of the MBL Corporation since 2000.

Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D. of New York, New York, was elected to the Class of 2007.  Dr. 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. 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 of Palm Beach, Florida, was elected to the Class of 2006.  Mr. Gruss is Senior Partner of Gruss & Co., a private international investment firm based in New York City.  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 and is on the Board member of several educational and cultural institutions.  

Kurt Isselbacher, M.D., of Newton, Massachusetts, was elected to the Class of 2007.  Dr. Isselbacher was Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center from 1987 to 2003 and was named Director Emeritus in 2003.  He has been a member of the MBL Corporation since 1963.

Darcy Kelley, of Sag Harbor, New York, was elected to the Class of 2007.  Dr. Kelley is a 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 at Columbia University. She previously served the MBL on the Board of Trustees in the Class of 1999.

R. Dana Ono, of Concord, Massachusetts, was elected to the Class of 2005.  Dr. 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.  He is an alumnus of MBL’s developmental biology and electron microscopy courses.

Jean “JeJe” Pierce, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, was elected to the Class of 2007. Mrs. Pierce is on the Boards of several educational and cultural organizations in New England and Florida. Her late husband, Bob, served on the MBL Board of Trustees from 1990 to 1993. Mrs. Pierce has served the MBL on the Board of Trustees in the Classes of 1999 and 2003.

James A. Sharp, of Katonah, New York, was elected to the Class of 2004. Mr. Sharp is President and General Manager of Carl Zeiss Microimaging, Inc. Mr. Sharp began his career at Zeiss over 25 years ago as a service engineer and moved up through various regional and national managerial positions.