Brief Biographical

Building Links between Academic Research and the Private Sector AAAS Leadership Development Conference September 21 - 23, 1997 Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, Vermont BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON SPEAKERS

Norman R. Alpert: Dr. Alpert is founder, President and CEO of Bio-Tek Instruments, Inc., and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Vermont. As a researcher, he studies the chemo-mechanical basis for contraction in normal and hypertrophied heart muscle. As a businessman, he has founded (1968) and led an entrepreneurial firm to become a worldwide leader in the biomedical and laboratory marketplace. Bio-Tek is a vertically integrated firm with the capability of designing, manufacturing, and selling biotechnology products. The firm employs 230 people. Dr. Alpert has also found time to serve as President of the American Section of the International Society for Heart Research, Secretary, Treasurer and President of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society, to serve on the editorial boards of Cardioscience, Clinical Cardiology and Circulation Research, and as editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, to name only a few of his areas of service.

Louis Berneman: Dr. Berneman is an experienced technology management and business development executive who has founded technology companies, designed business strategies, built management teams, raised venture capital, taken a company public, and concluded more than 100 license agreements. He is Managing Director, Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Pennsylvania, and he serves as Vice President, Professional Development and as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Technology Managers. Previous experience includes service as Director, Licensing and Business Development for the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, and as President and CEO of Response Technologies, Inc., the leading private-sector provider of bone marrow transplantation and other cancer biotherapy services. His doctorate is in Education, from Columbia University.

Jeffrey Callahan: Dr. Callahan has been Director of the University of Rhode Island Ocean Technology Center since its founding in 1993. The URI OTC is an NSF-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center that performs research pertaining to ocean acoustics, environmental monitoring systems, and seafood harvesting and processing technologies. Dr. Callahan came to URI from the defense industry, where he worked as a manager and operations analyst in the field of underwater acoustics and anti-submarine warfare for fifteen years. During that period he worked for three small to medium sized companies, including one that he founded and ran for three years prior to its sale to another company in 1987. From 1965 until 1978, Callahan served on active duty with the U.S. Navy. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (BS Physics, 1965) and Johns Hopkins University (PhD Physical Oceanography, 1971).

Michael Crowley: Mr. Crowley is a program manager with the National Science Foundation's EPSCoR office with responsibilities for increasing the number of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposals from and awards to small high tech firms in the EPSCoR states. Prior to joining the EPSCoR office in 1994, he was an SBIR program manager at NSF. While in the SBIR office, he developed and managed the Foundation's first Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Mr. Crowley has been at NSF since 1976 with previous employment at the US Department of Energy and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He received his undergraduate degree in industrial Management from the university of Rhode Island, and did his graduate work in business administration and economics at American University in Washington, DC.

Kathleen A. Denis: Dr. Denis is an experienced technology transfer and intellectual property manager, with broad experience in a number of biotechnology fields. She is Vice President, Technology Development, at Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation (AHERF), where she manages the intellectual property and research assets of the AHERF entities - Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, the Allegheny University Hospital System, the Graduate Health System and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, as well as Allegheny General Hospital, the Forbes Hospital System and Allegheny Singer Research Institute. She was formerly Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer, subsequent to a research career, at the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. Her Ph.D. is in immunology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Miguel Ferrer-Roig: Mr. Ferrer-Roig is vice president of Aegis Bicycles, a Belfast, Maine, small business firm which designs, manufactures and sells high performance, carbon fiber bicycles. Since completing his MS/MBA at American University in 1985, he has provided business development services in a variety of fields and industries, especially in areas related to national and international sports, a long-term interest of Mr. Ferrer-Roig, who was a collegiate all-American swimmer and captain of the swim team at Towson State University.

Mark S. Frankel: Dr. Frankel is Director of AAAS’s Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program, where he develops and manages the Association’s activities related to professional ethics, science and society, and science and law. He is staff officer for the AAAS-American Bar Association National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists and editor of the Association’s quarterly publication Professional Ethics Report. He is co-author of Values and Ethics in Organization and Human Systems Development (Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1990). He is on the editorial or advisory boards of Science and Engineering Ethics, Professional Ethics, the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, and the Law and Human Genome Review. He is a Fellow of the AAAS.

Denis O. Gray: Dr. Gray is Associate Professor, and coordinator of the Human Resource Development Program, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University. His research has focused on mechanisms for cooperative research between industry and universities. Dr. Gray is Principal Investigator of a multi-year program to evaluate the National Science Foundation's Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Program. He has served as the on-site evaluator for IUCRCs in telecommunications, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, textiles, food technology and agriculture. Dr. Gray has published extensively on the topic of cooperative research; he was senior editor of a volume, Technological Innovation: Strategies for a New Partnership, which reviewed Federal, State and industry cooperative research policies and programs and of a new volume, Managing the Cooperative Research Center, which discusses theory and practice for developing and managing university-industry cooperative research centers.

Robert W. Morton: Dr. Morton is a Vice President of SAIC and Manager of its Marine System and Survey Operation in Newport, R.I. Prior to joining SAIC in 1979, he was an oceanographer at the Naval Underwater Systems Center where he was responsible for development and management of multi-disciplinary programs in military and environmental oceanography. Since joining SAIC, he has been responsible for the development of a series of survey systems and application of those systems to coastal and deep water oceanographic programs. As original program manager for the Disposal AREA Monitoring System (DAMOS) he has extensive experience in coordinating the efforts of government agencies, universities and commercial business firms on scientific development programs. His doctorate in marine geology is from George Washington University.

Douglas A. Racine: Lt. Governor Racine, is a small business owner, serving as Vice President of Willie Racine’s Jeep/Eagle/Isuzu, Inc., in South Burlington, Vermont. He is a Democrat, who served five terms in the Vermont Senate (1983-1992), where his primary focus was issues relating to children (abuse prevention and early childhood intervention) and environmental protection. He was elected Lt. Governor to serve during the 1997-1998 term. His priorities in this role include improving the quality of education in Vermont and establishing viable economic development opportunities. He was educated in Burlington elementary and high schools and graduated with honors from Princeton University.

Robert J. Swenson: Dr. Swenson is the Vice President for Research, Creativity, and Technology Transfer at Montana State University. He has served as Department Chair of Physics at MSU for 20 years before assuming his present position. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the State Coordinator for the Montana EPSCoR Programs, serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National EPSCoR Coalition, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the EPSCoR Foundation and of the Associated Western Universities. His main interest at the moment is in creating the appropriate role for a research land grant university in a rural state, particularly the important impacts of research on the education of undergraduates and on technology transfer to the micro businesses in the state.