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T. Denny Sanford - Co-Chair
Denny Sanford was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the height of the Great Depression. He started working at the age of eight. He earned a degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and began a career in sales and marketing management. In 1966, Sanford started Contech, a specialty chemical company which was sold in 1982 and followed by a career in private equity investments. In 1986, he purchased United National Bank, which was renamed First Premier Bank. Under his leadership, First Premier has grown its assets to almost $1 billion. Another business, Premier Bankcard Inc., which he started, has become a national leader in the credit card industry. In 2001, Sanford formed the Sanford Foundation. He is now recognized as one of the most generous philanthropists in the country. In 2007, Sanford donated $470 million to South Dakota-based Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System to create Sanford Health. Later that year, he donated $20 million through Sanford Health to Burnham Institute for Medical Research to create the Sanford Children€s Health Research Center. The following year he donated $30 million to the San Diego Stem Cell Consortium, now the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. His newest gift to Sanford-Burnham brings his total philanthropic investment in San Diego to $100 million. Sanford is now a part-time San Diegan.
Malin Burnham - Co-Chair
As of January 2008, Malin Burnham is the retired chairman of John Burnham & Company Insurance and Burnham Real Estate and has been involved with these organizations since 1949. In addition to his involvement with the Burnham Companies, he has been active as a board member of several major corporations and 16 firms, in total. His present involvements include Chairman of The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and San Diego Hall of Champions Foundation, UCSD Foundation and Rady School of Management. Burnham has chaired nine major non-profits and has co-founded 14 organizations in his career, most providing direct benefit to San Diego and the nation. He is a native San Diegan who graduated from Stanford University in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering.
Irwin M. Jacobs, Sc.D. - Co-Chair
Irwin M. Jacobs, Sc.D., is co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of Qualcomm Incorporated. Jacobs served as chief executive officer of the Company until July 2005. He previously served as co-founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of LINKABIT Corporation through its merger with M/A-COM in August 1980. He is a former assistant/associate professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton in1994, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 200. Jacobs received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1956 from Cornell University and master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1957 and 1959, respectively.
John Moores - Co-Chair
John Moores is the founder of BMC Software, a significant tool in the software industry that develops products to improve mainframe computer operating system performance. He served as chief executive officer of BMC until 1987 and chairman until 1992. Currently, he is chairman of the San Diego Padres Baseball Club and a volunteer trustee of numerous institutions, including The Scripps Research Institute and The Carter Center. Additionally, Moores founded the River Blindness Foundation in 1989 to distribute a treatment for that disease in developing countries, principally in sub-Saharan Africa. Moores is a native of Texas and received both a bachelor's and law degree from the University of Houston.
William R. Brody, MD
William R. Brody, an acclaimed physician-scientist, entrepreneur and university leader, joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies on March 2, 2009 after 12 years as president of The Johns Hopkins University. He is a national figure in efforts to encourage innovation and strengthen the U.S. economy through investments in research and education. Most recently, he has written and spoken extensively around the country to promote a fuller discussion of health care reform.
Renowned for his achievements in biomedical engineering, Dr. Brody is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. He is also an accomplished scientist authoring more than 100 articles in U.S. medical journals. His has made significant contributions to the fields of medical acoustics, computed tomography, digital radiography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Brody holds two U.S. patents in medical imaging and is the co-founder of three medical device companies.
Dr. Brody's scientific advancements in the medical instrumentation field have led to his induction into and recognition by many national organizations. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE); the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering; the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine; the American Heart Association; the American College of Radiology; and the American College of Cardiology. Before being named president of The Johns Hopkins University in 1996, he served as provost of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota for two years. Prior to that, he held appointments at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1987 to 1994, including the Martin Donner Professor and Director of the department of Radiology; professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; professor of Biomedical Engineering; and Radiologist-in-Chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Prior to his career at Johns Hopkins, he held appointments at the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1977 to 1986, including Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering; Director, Advanced Imaging Techniques Laboratory; Associate Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering; and Director of Research Laboratories, Division of Diagnostic Radiology. A native of Stockton, Calif., Dr. Brody received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate (also in electrical engineering) and his medical degree (M.D.) from Stanford University.
He continued his post-graduate training in cardiovascular surgery and radiology at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California at San Francisco. The Canadian Association of Radiologists recognized Dr. Brody's contributions by making him an honorary member in 1974. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award from UC San Francisco's department of Radiology; the American Heart Association's Established Investigator Award; and the Western Thoracic Surgical Society Prize Manuscript Award.
He currently serves on a number of national boards, including: IBM, Stanford University and Novartis. He is on the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, and is a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness. He formerly served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and on the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Marye Anne Fox, Ph.D.
Marye Anne Fox is the Chancellor of the University of California at San Diego. One of the nation's most prominent physical organic chemists, she is the author of 350 research publications, five books, and 29 contributed book chapters. She earned her bachelor's degree from Notre Dame College in Cleveland, her master's degree from Cleveland State University, and her doctorate from Dartmouth College. She joined the faculty at the University of Texas in 1976 and was the M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Regents Professor in Chemistry and the Vice President for Research at Texas in 1998. She became the 12th Chancellor of North Carolina State as a distinguished university professor at that institution. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), she currently serves on the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and has served on the NAS Committee on Science and Engineering Public Policy, and the National Research Council's Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable.
Richard A. Lerner, MD
Richard A. Lerner, M.D., is the president of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Before assuming the organization's presidency, he served as chair of the Department of Molecular Biology of Scripps Research from 1982 to 1986. Lerner's groundbreaking research has provided a range of insights on protein and peptide structure, the identification of a sleep-inducing lipid, the conversion of antibodies into enzymes and other important discoveries. He has been elected to many prestigious scientific societies, boards and academies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Lerner graduated from Northwestern University and Stanford Medical School. His Honorary degrees include doctorate of science from Northwestern University and honorary degree of doctorate of science, honoris causa, Oxford University.
John Reed, M.D., Ph.D.
John Reed, M.D., Ph.D., is the president and chief executive officer of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. Prior to his appointment, Reed served as the Institute's scientific director from 1995 to 2001 and founded and directed the Institute's Program on Apoptosis and Cell Death Research until 2000. Reed is the author of more than 500 papers and has published more articles on apoptosis and cell death in the past six years than any other scientist world-wide. Between 1996 and 1998, Reed ranked first among biomedical researchers world-wide for the impact of his research. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and serves on the editorial boards of over ten scientific journals. John Reed earned his medical and doctorate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1986, where he also received his clinical and postdoctoral training.
Edward W. Holmes, M.D.
Edward W. Holmes, M.D., is a Distinguished Professor of the University of California and Vice Chancellor/Dean Emeritus of Health Sciences at UC San Diego. He is also Executive Deputy Chairman of the Biomedical Research Council and Chairman of the National Medical Research Council, Singapore.
Holmes has served on numerous advisory boards including the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health, the Board of Directors of Tularik, and the Scientific Advisory Board of GlaxoSmithKline which he chairs. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
He holds a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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