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September 30, 2006
Dr. Alan Paau, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services, and Dr. Arthur B. Ellis, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, San Diego, 9/29/06
Prior to joining UC San Diego as Assistant Vice Chancellor, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services, Dr. Alan Paau was Executive Director of the Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. and Director of Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer at Iowa State University. Previously, he was Associate Director of the Biotechnology Center at the Ohio State University with responsibilities in research administration, technology management, and industry liaison. Dr. Paau held faculty appointments while at Iowa State University in the departments of Preventive Medicine, Immunology & Microbiology, and Genetics & Zoology, and at the Ohio State University in the departments of Microbiology, and Plant Pathology.
Dr. Paau is the inventor to eight U.S. patents and has contributed 30 peer-reviewed research articles to scientific journals and six invited reviews/chapters to technical books. As a director of intellectual property and a licensing executive, he supervised the execution of over 800 licenses and option agreements and the formation of over 90 startup companies using university innovations.
Dr. Arthus Ellis, who joined UC San Diego on September 1, 2006, comes from the National Science Foundation, where he served as the Director for the Division of Chemistry. He is an internationally recognized chemist and widely known for his leadership in advancing the mission of research in the University to create and communicate new knowledge. Dr. Ellis holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in chemistry from MIT and Caltech, respectively.
Dr. Ellis has served as Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry and as the Chair of the Graduate Materials Science Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Among his many awards are Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships, the National Science Foundation Director’s Meritorious Service Award and the NSF’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award. Dr. Ellis and his co-workers have published more than 200 research papers in leading scientific journals and obtained nine patents.
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