SILVERTHORNE, Colo., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that Dr. David L. Woodland is the new Chief Scientific Officer of the nonprofit life science organization effective October 31, 2011. He replaces Dr. Andrew Robertson, who is now Scientific Coordinator for the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) International Center for Advanced Training (EICAT) in Heidelberg, Germany.
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An internationally recognized lung researcher, immunologist and virologist, Dr. Woodland was most recently President and Director of the Trudeau Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research institute in Saranac Lake, New York. In this position, held since 2008, he directed a staff of more than 100 researchers and administrators and a budget of $17 million.
Dr. Woodland is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Viral Immunology and an adjunct professor at SUNY-Albany/New York State Department of Health, the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the Center for Immunology and Microbiology at Albany Medical College. In addition, he is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Immunology and Biology Direct, and a memberof the American Association of Immunologists.
A native of the UK, Dr. Woodland is no stranger to Colorado. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Bath in England and a doctoral degree for studies at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at National Jewish Center in Denver. He was then on the research staff of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee for nine years before joining the Trudeau Institute in 1999. While at St. Jude’s, Dr. Woodland taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
He has organized two Keystone Symposia scientific conferences and presented at numerous others. Earlier this year, he was the lead scientific organizer for a Keystone Symposia conference on “Immunity in the Respiratory Tract: Challenges of the Lung Environment.”
Dr. Woodland said of his appointment, “I am thrilled to join a highly respected organization that plays such a pivotal role in life science research and advancement. This position enables me to assume a broader scientific perspective than one often can as a specialized researcher, or as head of a research institute. In particular, I look forward to the impact I can have on scientific communication and training that are central to Keystone Symposia’s mission. Personally, I am fond of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, an area similar in many ways to the Adirondacks, and I am eager to become an active part of the Summit County community.”
Added James W. Aiken, Ph.D., Keystone Symposia’s Chief Executive Officer, “We are excited that David Woodland has joined Keystone Symposia. He is an eminent scientist with a track record of significant achievement and global experience in the life sciences.”
About Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology
Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, has been conducting open, international scientific conferences since 1972 and has been headquartered in Silverthorne, Colorado since 1990, when the organization left the University of California at Los Angeles. Annually, it convenes more than 50 conferences involving at least 13,000 scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students from around the world. Keystone Symposia also provides mentoring and support for young investigators in the life sciences, including scholarships and the Keystone Symposia Fellows Program.
Keystone Symposia will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2012.
More information can be found at www.keystonesymposia.org.
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