SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Intezyne has created a Scientific Advisory Board with expertise in a wide range of scientific disciplines. The members are leaders in their respective fields and aid Intezyne in its continued growth and development.
 M.G. Finn, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA)
M.G. Finn, Ph.D. received his B.Sc. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1980 with research training in inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry with Professors Robert Gagne and Fred Anson. Under the direction of Professor K. B. Sharpless, his Ph.D. research (MIT, 1986) focused on the mechanism of the titanium-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation reaction. Following a NIH-funded postdoctoral position with Professor J.P. Collman at Stanford (metalloporphyrin catalysts of oxygen reduction), he started his independent career at the University of Virginia in 1988. In his nine years there, Finn's group developed novel metallocarbene and ylide reagents for organic synthesis. Professor Finn moved to The Scripps Research Institute in 1998, where for the past several years his group has pioneered the use of virus particles as molecular building blocks and platforms for polyvalent display of biologically active structures, and has developed new methods of bioconjugation based on azide-alkyne "click" chemistry.
 Thomas P. Russell, Ph.D. Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers, Professor of Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
Thomas P. Russell received his Ph.D. in 1979 in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Research Center in San Jose, CA (1981-96) and became a Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997. His research interests include the surface and interfacial properties of polymers, phase transitions in polymers, directed self-assembly processes, the use of polymers as scaffolds and templates for the generation of nanoscopic structures, the interfacial assembly of nanoparticles, and the influence of supercritical fluids on phase transitions and dynamics in polymer thin films. Professor Russell is the Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers, an Associate Director of MassNanoTech, Director of the Multi-University Research Initiative on Nanoscopic Assembly of Biologically Active Materials, and an Associate Editor of Macromolecules. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Russell received the A. K. Doolittle Award (1984), the Cooperative Research Award from the American Chemical Society (2002), the Dutch Polymer Award (2004), and the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (2005). He was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts in 2004 and received the Silvio O. Conte Chair in 2006.
 Andre M. Striegel, Ph.D. Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards & Technology (Gaithersburg, MD).
André Striegel received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1996 and his BS in Chemistry in 1991, both from the University of New Orleans. From 1996 to 1998 he performed postdoctoral research for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research. For the next six years he worked for Solutia, at their Springfield, Massachusetts R&D center, first in the Physical & Analytical Sciences Center and then in Films R&D, achieving the rank of Research Specialist. From 2004 to 2011 he was Assistant Professor of both Analytical and Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Florida State University. In September 2011 he joined the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), where he is a Research Chemist in the Analytical Division of the Material Measurement Laboratory. His research interests are in the area of polymer characterization, in particular applying separation science to determining structure-property relations of complex macromolecules, and in the fundamental aspects of separation and detection methods. He has received the Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Grantee Award, the inaugural ACS-DAC Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science, and an FSU First Year Assistant Professor Award. He also received a Solutia Technical Achievement Award for his research in private industry, served as inaugural Professor in Residence for Preservation Research and Testing at the U.S. Library of Congress, and is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry.
 Robert J. Gillies, Ph.D. Vice Chair of Radiology and Director of Imaging Research at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa, FL)Prof. Gillies received his PhD in Zoology from University California, Davis in 1979 and did post-doctoral work on in-vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Robert Shulman, first at the Bell Labs (Summit, NJ) and then at Yale University. He joined the faculty at Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in 1982. He moved to the University of Arizona as an associate professor with tenure in 1988 to establish a research program in biomedical MRI/MRS. He became founding director of the Advanced Research Institute for Biomedical Imaging (ARIBI) in 2005. He then relocated to the Moffitt in 2008 as part of a major investment in radiology and imaging research. Prof. Gillies has received numerous local, national and international awards for his teaching and research, including the Furrow award for innovative teaching (U. Arizona), the Yuhas award for radiation oncology research (U. Penn), the TEFAF professorship (U. Maastricht) and the 2009 Distinguished Basic Scientist of the AMI. At the Moffitt he is continuing work on five NIH grants dealing with tumor imaging and tumor physiology, and establishing applications of imaging science to clinical oncology problems. |
