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Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 156-180
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He is currently the Democratic candidate for the Illinois State Senate in the 9th District. Since he was elected to office in 2010, Daniel has passed legislation on a variety of issues, including environmental policy, high-tech economic growth, political reform, equal rights for individuals with autism and consumer protection.
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The Illinois Recycling Association recognized Daniel as a Recycling Hero; he won the Legislator of the Year award from the Illinois Association of Park Districts and was given the John W Maitland Award by the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization.
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He also is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the British Society of Animal Science, The American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists, The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and the Illinois Council for Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR)
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Prior to joining the firm, he served as President Barack Obama's Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development. As Innovation Strategy Director, John leverages his experience effectively transforming complex organizations to compete in the 21st century global economy.
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As President and CEO, Mark is focused on building upon the ISTC's highly collaborative public-private partnerships to advance Illinois as a hub for research, innovation, and investment. Prior to his leadership with the Coalition, Mark served as a deputy chief of staff for Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and also held senior positions at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
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degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 in the area of magnetic semiconductors and was a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories (1988-1990) studying magnetism and correlated electronic systems, mostly with synchrotron-based X-ray techniques.
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Scientifically, Dr. Lee has extensive research experience in using engineering-based approaches to examine mechanisms of age-related diseases and cancer progression focused on combining cell biology, molecular biology, and engineering to understand various cellular reactions to external stimuli.
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DAVID MILLER David Miller is President and chief executive officer of the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization -- better known world-wide as iBIO®. iBIO's mission is to make Illinois and the surrounding Midwest one of the world's top life sciences centers: a great place to do business, and a great place to grow new technology ventures.
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These include the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Taylor Award, Havinga Medal, the Gustavus John Esselen Award, the Biomedical Engineering Society's Distinguished Achievement Award, a Department of Defense NSSEFF Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award, the iCON Innovator of the Year Award, a NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the Collegiate Inventors Award, the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002, 2004) , an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Dickinson College, the Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Science Alumni Award, the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, a Dickinson College Metzger-Conway Fellowship, the
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At present he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) , Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, BioMacromolecules, Macromolecular Bioscience, SENSORS, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Chemistry-A European Journal, Chemistry & Biology, Nanotechnology Law & Business, The Scientist, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and Journal of Cluster Science, Plasmonics.
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Active in Chicago's civic and business community, he served as Chairman of the Interim Board of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (which owns and operates McCormick Place and Navy Pier) , CoChaired the Transition Committee for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau, a member of the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Science and Letters Board of Overseers and a member of the Metropolis Strategies Board.
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CARALYNN NOWINSKI As the Associate Vice President for Innovation & Economic Development at the University of Illinois, Caralynn promotes strategic relationships between the University community and external stakeholders to foster technology commercialization, talent development and retention, and overall economic impact. She offers a unique perspective to the University's efforts to foster innovation and stimulate the Illinois economy, drawing from her past experiences as an entrepreneur, physician and venture capitalist.
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Sloan Research Fellowship, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation TeacherScholar Award, and the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Schering-Plough Scientific Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health.
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and Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering)
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He created the Illinois Innovation Council to promote and attract innovation-driven entrepreneurs to the state. For his work increasing Illinois' economic, scientific, and technological output, Quinn was named the 2011 Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
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He also serves on the Advisory Board of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management Center for Biotechnology, the McCormick School of Engineering and was most recently appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to the newly formed Illinois Innovation Council. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Roberson is Vice Provost, Executive Director, and Research Professor with the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is responsible for providing leadership for a new undergraduate business school focused on entrepreneurship and technology, as well as developing research centers and business ventures in association with public and private sector partners. Previously, Roberson held Vice President and Chief Technical Officer positions with Motorola and NCR Corporation, and held senior executive positions with AT&T and Digital Equipment Corp.
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From 1992 to 2006 he gave two-day short courses on drug design and drug action at the national meetings of the American Chemical Society, as well as at various pharmaceutical companies. He has been a lecturer at the Residential School on Medicinal Chemistry (Drew University)
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Taylor has been asked to serve on numerous technology advisory committees at organizations such as the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technologies, and others. Congressional science and technology committees have also called on him to assess the impact of potential legislation affecting the technology community.
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Testa also serves in an advisory or director's capacity to a variety of professional journals, nonprofit organizations, advisory boards and economic development initiatives in the Midwest. He chairs the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Council on Economic Education and serves on the boards of the Global Chicago Center of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Economic Development Council of Chicago.
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Bakken Professor of Biomedical Engineering, director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute, and head of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Tirrell moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1999, where for a decade he was Professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials, Biomolecular Science and Engineering, and Richard A
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, where he is a professor of biomedical engineering. Walsh received a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Today's meeting on "Building the Illinois Innovation Economy" forms part of a complementary analysis entitled Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State & Regional Innovation Initiatives. The overarching goal of Dr.
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(Thomas J Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
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. Advisor to NORDEN, the Nordic Innovation Center, Nordic Council of Ministers, Oslo, Norway, and a member of the Global Technology Council of Kraft Foods, Inc.
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