Dr. David Galas Battele Seattle Research Center,USA E-mail : GalasD@BATTELLE.ORG Web-site :

David J. Galas, PhD is Vice President and Chief Science Officer for Life Sciences of the Battelle Memorial Institute, where he directs and coordinates biological science programs across several national laboratories and other research institutions, and is also a Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle WA, where he conducts his own research.

He was previously Chancellor, Chief Scientific Officer and Norris Professor of Applied Life Science at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI), in Claremont CA.

Before co-founding KGI, a new research and educational institution in the applied life sciences, Dr. Galas served as President and Chief scientific Officer of Seattle-based Chiroscience R&D Inc., a genomics and drug discovery company.

This company was formed through the acquisition of Darwin Molecular Corporation, which Dr. Galas co-founded in 1993, serving as CEO and Chief Scientific Officer.

Prior to his involvement in the biotechnology industry, Dr. Galas served as Director for Health and Environmental Research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, where he headed the DOE’s Human Genome Project from 1990 to 1993, on leave from the University of Southern California, where was Professor of Molecular Biology for twelve years, and chairman of Molecular Biology.

Dr. Galas’ formal educational training was not in biology, but in physics. He received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Davis-Livermore, and his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also held research positions at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. His broad research interests include areas of molecular biology and human genetics, the development and application of new technologies in the life sciences, and the understanding of complex biological networks, in both experiment and theory.

He is the recipient of several awards including the Smithsonian Institution-Computer World Pioneer award in 1999. He has served on many federal, university and corporate boards and advisory committees, including the National Research Council Board on Life Science, the Board of Directors of the Hertz Foundation, and the National Cancer Policy Board. He is a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.