David Galas, PhD
Ph.D., Physics
University of California
Phone: 206-732-1213
Office: 215
Email: dgalas@systemsbiology.org
Currently Dr. Galas is Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Institute for Systems Biology where he conducts his research, and leads multi-investigator projects. Formerly he was Chief Science Officer for Life Sciences of the Battelle Memorial Institute, where he directed and coordinated biological science programs across several national laboratories and other research institutions. 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, a new research and educational institution in the applied life sciences, which he co-founded. Prior to that 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 and served 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, while on leave from the University of Southern California. He was Professor of Molecular Biology at USC, on the faculty for twelve years, and chairman for five years.
Dr. Galas' formal educational training was in physics. He received his undergraduate degree in physics, and his PhD in physics from the University of California. He has also held research positions at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National 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, including several biotechnology companies he has co-founded, and on various advisory and NRC committees, including the National Research Council Board on Life Science, the Board of Directors of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, and the National Cancer Policy Board. He is a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
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