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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 375-388
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His work has been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation of Clinical Research and the William Damashek Prize for Major Discoveries in Hematology. From 1995 until 2001 he was director of 377
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He currently serves as a managing member of the Athenaeum Fund and is a director of Drug Royalty Corporation Inc., the Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena Entretec, and several privately held companies. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
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He was co-chair of the Board on Global Health of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He received the first Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases, shared the Novartis Award in Immunology in 1998, and was the recipient of the Robert Koch Gold Medal for lifetime research in infectious diseases in 1999.
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Charles B Curtis is the president and chief operating officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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Previously, Mr. Downey was executive director and chief financial officer of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation's largest independent public authority.
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He has served as principal-in-charge for major engineering projects such as the Stanford Linear Accelerator PositronElectron Project, the Basalt Waste Isolation Project at Hanford, the Nuclear Power Plants in Mined Caverns Study, the Downtown Seattle Transit Project, the Long Beach Naval Fuel Pier, and the Boston and San Francisco Effluent Outfall Tunnels. He is the author of Parsons Brinckerhoff's Project Management Manual and has also published various technical papers and articles.
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Hamburg, M.D., is vice president for biological programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, whose mission is to strengthen global security by reducing the risk of use and preventing the spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Before her current position, she was the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S.
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He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Schelling's research interests have included military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in policy and in business. He spent the years 1948 to 1953 in Europe and Washington with the Marshall Plan and related programs, joined Yale University in 1953, Harvard University in 1958, and came to Maryland in 1990.
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He had previously held senior positions in cellular physiology and biochemistry at the National Heart Institute.
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, 1998; the President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission) , 1985-1986; and the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission)
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Past reports she has worked on include Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, a study that examined the problems related to preventing the use of pipe bombs in the United States, and Future Biotechnology on the International Space Station, an examination of the plans for cellular biology and protein crystal growth research on the space station. Her regular position is with the Board on Assessment of NIST Programs, which produces an annual report evaluating the broad array of research programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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