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The Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars (EFS) Executive Committee can offer personal assistance to new faculty entrepreneurs at various stages of company conceptualization, start-up, funding, product launch, business development, and growth.

2016-2017 executive members

Roger Altizer, Entertainment Arts and Engineering

Associate Professor | 801-581-5460 | roger.altizer@utah.edu

Ellen Bromberg, Fine Arts

Department of Modern Dance | 801-581-7327 | e.bromberg@m.cc.utah.edu

Ellen Bromberg is a choreographer, media artist, screendance curator and educator. Her choreography and films have been seen nationally and internationally, and she has received numerous awards and grants for her work including a 2012 University of Utah Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award and a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. A Professor in the Department of Modern Dance at the University of Utah, Ms. Bromberg is also the founding director of the first Graduate Certificate in Screendance.

Gretchen A. Case, School of Medicine

Medical Ethics and Humanities, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics | 801-585-9766 | gretchen.case@hsc.utah.edu

Gretchen A. Case is Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, the Department of Internal Medicine, and the Department of Pediatrics. She received a BA in Speech Communication and History and an MA in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in Performance Studies from UC, Berkeley.

Dr. Case's research and teaching interests are in the medical humanities: the many ways in which the arts and humanities intersect with the medical arts and sciences. Her scholarly projects often combine communication, performance, disability theory, cultures of medicine, oral history, and ethnography. Dr. Case also has more than ten years of experience as a public historian, specializing in histories of science and medicine. She is currently and is currently developing an empirically based theatrical approach to improving communication between health care providers and patients with Dr. Sydney Cheek-O'Donnell in the Department of Theatre.

Katharine Coles, Humanities

Department of English | 801-581-7868 | k.coles@english.utah.edu

Katharine Coles’ fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), was written under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program; ten poems from the book, translated into German by Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue of the journal Matrix. Her sixth collection, Flight, is due out in 2016. She has also published two novels. Recent poems and prose have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Seneca Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Image, Crazyhorse, Ascent, and Poetry; ten poems, translated into German by Klaus Martens, appeared in 2014 in the journal Matrix. A professor at the University of Utah, in 2009-10 she served as the inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has received grants and awards from the NEA, the NEH and, in 2012-13, the Guggenheim Foundation.

Cynthia Furse, Engineering

Associate V.P. and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering | 801-585-7234 | cfurse@ece.utah.edu

Dr. Furse is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Furse has developed novel methods for locating faults on live electrical wiring and is a founder of LiveWire Innovation, which is commercializing this technology. She has also developed antennas for use in the human body and novel advancements to the FDTD electromagnetic simulation method. Dr. Furse is also an innovative educator and leader in the flipped classroom initiative and has received numerous awards for her teaching. Dr. Furse works to interest young students in engineering and routinely volunteers in Utah's K-12 schools. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Sarah George, Biology

Natural History Museum of Utah |801-581-6927 | sgeorge@nhmu.utah.edu

Sarah George is the Executive Director of the Natural History Museum of Utah and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology. She oversaw the development, design, and construction of the new home for the Museum, the Rio Tinto Center, and manages a variety of research collections and labs, public, and school programs. The Museum is a venue for a wide array of multidisciplinary programs, many of which have been in partnership with Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars. Receiving her Ph.D. In biology from the University of New Mexico, Dr. George was awarded the Directors Chair by the Western Museums Association in 2013 and was named a 2012 Pathfinder by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce.

Stephen Goldsmith, Architecture & Planning

Department of Architecture | 801-581-8255 | goldsmith@arch.utah.edu

Stephen Goldsmith is a craftsman, sculptor and founder of Artspace, a non-profit organization that has been developing affordable live/work space, childcare and educational facilities, and incubator space for non-profit agencies in Salt Lake City since 1980. His work has evolved across disciplines including design collaborations on The Seven Canyons Fountain in Liberty Park, the day-lighting of the real City Creek below Memory Grove, and his becoming the first artist/planning director for a major U.S. city, where he served in that role during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. During the Olympics he produced an international exhibition and symposium titled, The Physical Fitness of Cities: Vision and Ethics in City Building in collaboration with Moshe Safdie and Samina Queraeshi. He went on to become the National Director of the Frederick Rose Architectural Fellowship Program for the Enterprise Foundation. He's currently an Associate Professor at the University of Utah's College of Architecture + Planning, and the University’s Professor for Campus Sustainability for which he created a new course on Empathic Sustainability. He is Director of The Center for the Living City, an organization founded in 2005 with the support and encouragement of Jane Jacobs. His book What We See: advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs, co-authored with Lynne Elizabeth won the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Prize in 2010.

Eric Handman, Modern Dance

Associate Professor | 801-581-7327 | eric.handman@utah.edu

Eric Handman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Dance. He specializes in emergent creative processes, technique, improvisation, composition, qualitative research methods, aesthetics, criticism and theory. He is interested in how gaming technologies can be used to enhance creativity. He is working on interactive software for music visualization.

Kai Kuck, School of Medicine

Anesthesiology, 801-581-6393, kai.kuck@hsc.utah.edu

John Langell, School of Medicine

General Surgery, 801-587-7288, john.langell@hsc.utah.edu

John Langell, MD, PhD, MPH is Executive Director of the Center for Medical Innovation and a minimally invasive gastrointestinal and endocrine surgeon at the University of Utah and Chief of General Surgery at the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center. Dr. Langell Completed his Bachelors of Science degree at the University of California at Los Angeles and his Doctor of Medicine degree at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

V. Kim Martinez, Fine Arts

Department of Art & Art History | 801-581-6513 | kim.martinez@art.utah.edu

V. Kim Martinez, Associate Professor is a painter, multi-media artist, community muralist and studio faculty. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has received numerous grants, artist residencies and awards including the National Endowments for the Arts, through the Utah Arts Council “Challenge America,” the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Professors Off-Campus Project and the Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award. Currently, she is the Graduate Director of the Department of Art & Art History MFA Studio Program.

Jodi Morstein, Nursing

College of Nursing | 801-585-7326 | jodi.morstein@nurs.utah.edu

Dr. Jodi Morstein is an advanced practice registered nurse who specializes in working with children, teens and their families. She has over 25 years of experience as a clinician working in in-patient and out-patient settings. Her research interests have focused on the development of social competence in seriously emotionally disturbed youth and currently she is working on a technology based intervention for children and adolescents with ADHD.

Nalini Nadkarni, Science

Center for Science and Math Education | 801-581-5231 | nalini.nadkarni@utah.edu

Dr. Nadkarni is a University of Utah Professor of Biology and the Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education. Her research is on the ecology of tropical rainforest canopies. She oversees teacher-training programs and innovates public engagement programs for non-traditional public audiences such as urban youth, artists, and the incarcerated.

Neal Patwari, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor | 801-581-5917 | npatwari@ece.utah.edu

Neal Patwari has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, all in Electrical Engineering. He is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the SPAN Lab at the University of Utah. Neal is the Director of Research at Xandem Technology, LLC.

Glenn Prestwich, Pharmacy

Department of Medicinal Chemistry | 801-585-9051 | glenn.prestwich@pharm.utah.edu

Glenn D. Prestwich is Presidential Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Presidential Special Assistant for Faculty Entrepreneurism at the University of Utah, where he created the Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars program. He also chairs the U’s Internal Commercialization Coordination Council. He is also the Chancellor’s Distinguished Visiting Professor at Washington State University, and recently led an External Review of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at WSU. His research includes phospholipids in cell signaling, synthetic matrices for regenerative medicine, and anti-inflammatory glycosaminoglycans. He co-founded nine companies, including Echelon Biosciences, Glycosan BioSystems, Sentrx Animal Care, GlycoMira Therapeutics, Metallosensors, and Deuteria Agrochemicals. He is a 2013 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, recipient of the 2006 Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology, the 2008 Volwiler Research Award of the AACP, the 2010 University of Utah Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award, and the 2014 U of Utah Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award. During 41 years as a faculty member, he has over 650 publications (H-index 82) and 25 issued patents and has trained over 125 postgraduate scientists. He is a pilot, a first tenor, and an advocate for chamber music.

Amelia Rinehart, Law

College of Law | 801-581-6833 | amelia.rinehart@law.utah.edu

Professor Rinehart joined the faculty in 2010 following two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University. Prior to entering the legal academy, she practiced law for several years at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe L.L.P. in New York, and Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre L.L.P. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation, procurement, and counseling. Professor Rinehart is a registered patent attorney and her scholarship focuses on patent law and theory.

Professor Rinehart received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2002. She received a Master of Science in biomedical engineering from Tulane University in 1997, and a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, summa cum laude, with Departmental Honors from Tulane University in 1996. Prior to attending law school, Professor Rinehart worked as an engineer at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Professor Rinehart teaches Contracts, Patent Law, Intellectual Property Survey and Intellectual Property Workshop.

James Thompson, Technology and Venture Commercialization

Business and Technology Development Manager | 801-213-3564 | james.thompson@tvc.utah.edu

James is currently the associate director of the Business Technology Development group and the engineering team lead at the University of Utah's Technology & Venture Commercialization office. James has over 14 years of industry experience in the biological sciences previously serving as director of R&D and executive director of the Spendlove Research Foundation, co-founder Quansys Biosciences and Petrobio Tech, director of new product development Echelon Biosciences, adjunct professor of Biology at Salt Lake Community College and the director of business development for both Frontier Scientific and Echelon Biosciences.

Chris Wasden, Business

Executive Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation | 801-585-9857 | chris.wasden@utah.edu

Dr. Chris Wasden is the Executive Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation at the University of Utah. Previously he was a Managing Director at PwC and the Global Healthcare Innovation Leader. As a global thought leader on Digital Health and the role that Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud technologies are transforming healthcare he has written and published over 40 articles and reports on the topic, and he speaks at over 30 events each year on how Digital Health is transforming the practice of medicine, the delivery of care, and the creation of an entirely new wellness paradigm based upon objective measures that lead to greater engagement and changes in human behavior. He advises leading companies on how mobile sensors and Digital Health innovations can create new markets and opportunities (AT&T, Telefonica, Vodafone, Swisscom, Sharp, HCSC, Nokia, RIM, Roche Diagnostics, Eisai Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, Partners Healthcare, just to name a few). He is a named inventor on 11 issued patents and has been a leader in 10 different startups where he developed many of his ideas around the innovation cycle and lifecycle and how fast, frequent, frugal, and failure accelerates innovation. Dr. Wasden has a doctorate in human and organizational learning from George Washington University in Washington, DC, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School, and bachelor degrees in accounting (BS) and Asian studies (BA) from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Cheryl A. Wright, Family and Consumer Studies (CSBS)

Associate Professor | 801-581-7712 | cheryl.wright@fcs.utah.edu

Cheryl Wright is an associate professor with research interests in the creative and social-emotional development of children. Her current interest centers on community-based participatory research (CBPR) project focused on students with autism and their families. She is the co-founder of NeuroVersity - a technology based educational program for students with autism and related disorders. The program leverages 3D design software to enhance the social, personal and vocational skills of participating students. The program is strength (visual-spatial skills) and interest focused and research based. The NeuroVersity research team has published papers focusing on the family, sibling and grandparent involvement in the program. Additional papers have analyzed the social, creative and vocational environments that are enhanced through student and family participation. The long-range goal of the program is employment since individuals with autism have some of the highest rates on unemployment, underemployment and mal-employment. The program that started in Salt Lake City has been replicated in The Dalles (Oregon), Orlando (Florida) and Boulder (Colorado).

Past committee members

	Jim Agutter, Architecture & Planning (801-581-8779, agutterja@arch.utah.edu): Jim Agutter is the Director of the Design Program, an Assistant Professor of Design in the College of Architecture + Planning and Director of Spark Healthcare Innovation Lab. His work has focused on using design and design thinking principles to address challenges across a broad range of disciplines. In addition, he has researched the application of 2D and 3D visual design concepts to large scale, real-time data environments. He is the co-founder of two University of Utah spin-offs, Applied Medical Visualizations and Intellivis and has 8 patents. He was awarded the 2005 Creative Achievement Award with Julio Bermudez by the Association of College Schools of Architecture and the 2009 University of Utah Honors Professorship.
	Balamurali K. Ambati, Moran Eye Center (801-581-3023, bala.ambati@utah.edu): Dr. Bala Ambati, MD, PhD, MBA, is a cornea specialist with a research focus in angiogenesis. Splitting his time equally between clinic and research, his most significant basic science research advances have been the identification of sFlt-1 as the prime mediator of corneal avascularity (published in Nature and recognized by Science as a Signaling Breakthrough of the Year) and the development of Flt-1 intraceptors as a novel intracellular anti-VEGF therapy, of significant impact as current anti-VEGF agents work only extracellularly. Clinically, Dr. Ambati was the first to describe use of bevacizumab (Avastin) to treat corneal transplant rejection. He has developed key surgical innovations including the technique of posterior endothelial rotational lamellar keratoplasty (PERL-K) as a non-transplant treatment for Fuchs dystrophy, a D-shaped ultrasound tip enabling carousel technique within the lens capsular bag, and a novel DSEK forceps. Dr. Ambati has also been recognized for his teaching excellence by a University of Utah Resident Research Mentor Award and by serving as an Instructor at the Harvard Cataract Course for 2009 and 2010.
	Stacy Morris Bamberg, Department of Mechanical Engineering (801-581-6441, sjm.bamberg@utah.edu): Stacy Bamberg is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Her research focus is on the design of sensors and instrumentation to allow people to evaluate their own physiological conditions away from a clinical environment. She is founder of Veristride, a University of Utah spinout that is focused on her work on gait and movement analysis and feedback using an instrumented insole and phone app. Veristride was awarded an honorable mention for medical device design from the Utah Innovation Awards in 2010. She has focused on gait and movement analysis for more than a decade, and was an invited speaker at the 7th Annual Intl. Conference on Ubiquitous Healthcare in Jeju, South Korea, in 2010. She is also a senior member of the IEEE.
	Grzegorz (Greg) Bulaj, Department of Medicinal Chemistry (801-581-7063, bulaj@pharm.utah.edu): Dr. Grzegorz Bulaj is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy since 2006, and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology since 1998; Senior Scientist and Director of Peptide Chemistry in Cognetix, Inc., (1999-2005) involved in many stages of drug development from discovery, through preclinical to clinical studies; Co-founder and Advisor, NeuroAdjuvants, Inc. in Salt Lake City (2006-present). Inventor and co-inventor on several patent applications. Over the last few years, Dr. Bulaj has been serving as a consultant for small biotech companies that specialize in peptide-based therapeutics.
	Craig Caldwell, Fine Arts, Department of Fim and Media Arts (801-581-5127, craig.caldwell@utah.edu): Craig Caldwell, USTAR Professor, Entertainment Arts and Engineering. Industry experience: 3D Technology Specialist, Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, CA and Creative Training at Electronic Arts, Tiburon Studio. Academic background includes Head of the largest Film School in Australia at Griffith University. Previously was Head of the Media Arts Department, University of Arizona. Currently Director of Arts Track, Master Games Studio. Presented at conferences such as SIGGRAPH Asia 2012, Pixel 7, View Conference, and Mundos Digitales.
	Dale Clayton, Department of Biology (801-581-6482, clayton@biology.utah.edu): Dr. Dale H. Clayton is Professor of Biology in the College of Science. He received an M.S. in entomology at the University of Minnesota (1983) and a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago (1989). From 2004-2008 he was Director of the Center for Alternate Strategies of Parasite Removal (CASPeR) at the University of Utah. He is lead inventor of the LouseBuster™, a patented medical device that uses warm air to kill head lice on children and adults. Clayton is co-founder and CSO of Larada Sciences Inc., a university spinoff company founded in 2006 to market the LouseBuster™. The device is currently being used in more than 20 countries. Clayton is a frequent guest lecturer around the world and has published two books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. In 2008 he was awarded the American Society of Parasitologists' highest honor, the Ward Medal.
	David W. Grainger, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (801-581-371, david.grainger@utah.edu): David W. Grainger is the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Chair, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Professor of Bioengineering at University of Utah. Grainger's expertise is focused on improving implanted medical device performance, drug delivery of therapeutic proteins and live vaccines, nanomaterials interactions with human tissues, and innovating diagnostic devices based on DNA and protein biomarker capture. Grainger has >130 full research publications, organized 21 international scientific symposia, presented over 130 invited plenary symposia lectures, and several hundred other invited talks all over the world. Grainger has helped found three medical device companies, and sits on Scientific Advisory boards for 4 biomedical companies, and actively consults internationally with industries in applications of materials in biotechnologies and medicine.
	Robert W. Hitchcock, Department of Bioengineering (801-585-7741, r.hitchcock@utah.edu): Dr. Robert W. Hitchcock, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, director of Utah BioDesign and director of the Bioengineering Industrial Advisory Board. Bob joined the University of Utah's Bioengineering faculty in 2006 to expand the department's initiatives in medical device design education and innovation. He has over 25 years experience in bringing new products to the marketplace. He is a co-founder of Catheter Connections, Inc.(2008), a former VP of R&D for Sorenson Medical (2002 – 2006), former COO of iSense (2001) and scientific advisory board member for Photokinetics, Inc. (Ogden, UT), MR Board, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT), Blackrock Technology (Salt Lake City, UT) and SMD, Inc. (Wallingford, CT). Research interests of Dr. Hitchcock's group include implantable sensors, antimicrobial devices for infusion therapy and cardiac tissue engineering.
	Chris Johnson, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (801-581-7705, crj@sci.utah.edu): Johnson directs the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah where he is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Physics and Bioengineering. His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization. Dr. Johnson founded the SCI research group in 1992, which has since grown to become the prominent SCI Institute which has spawned three start-up companies: Visual Influence, which recently merged with Numira Biosciences, VisTrails Inc., and RayScale Inc.
	Dean Li, Molecular Medicine Program (801-585-0727, dean.li@u2m2.utah.edu: Dean Li, MD, PhD is the HA and Edna Benning Endowed Professor of Medicine and Cardiology. He was the Director of the Vascular Biotherapeutics Center of Excellence at the University of Utah. This Center of Excellence has spun off two companies. The first, Hydra Biosciences, is located in Cambridge, MA, and was co-founded by Dr. Li in 2001. Dr. Li served as CSO until late 2003 and returned to the University full time in 2004, following successful completion of two rounds of financing amounting to 28 million dollars. The second, Navigen, is located in Salt Lake City and was established in 2006. Dr. Li is currently the founding CSO of Navigen. This company is commercializing new medicines for stabilizing vessels in the treatment of vascular eye diseases, acute lung injury and other inflammatory/ischemic diseases.
	Richard Normann, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (801-581-7645, normann@utah.edu): Dr. Richard A. Normann, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology, is the director of the Center for Neural Interfaces, a Utah State Center of Excellence (1995-2000). He was co-founder of Bionic Technologies, Inc (1995-2002), a company focused on the sale of tools for recording and stimulation of large populations of neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems. In 2002, this company was acquired by Cyberkinetics Neurotechnologies, Inc. (Foxborough, MA). Cyberkinetics was acquired in 2008 by Blackrock Microsystems which has continued the development of research and clinical applications of the Utah Electrode Array technologies. U professor Richard Normann's brain electrode array has created possibilities for patients (Continuum, Summer 2014)
	Florian Solzbacher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (801-581-7408, solzbach@ece.utah.edu): Prof. Solzbacher is Executive Director of the Utah Nanofabrication Laboratory, Co-Director of the Utah Nanotechnology Institute, President and Executive Chairman of Blackrock Microsystems and of Blackrock Neuromed and is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering with adjunct appointments in Materials Science and Bioengineering at the University of Utah. His research focuses on harsh environment microsystems and materials, including implantable, wireless microsystems for biomedical and healthcare applications, and on high temperature and harsh environment compatible micro sensors. Prof. Solzbacher received his M.Sc. EE from the Technical University Berlin in 1997 and his Ph.D. from the Technical University Ilmenau in 2003. He is co-founder of several companies such as Blackrock Microsystems, Blackrock Neuromed, and First Sensor Technology. He was a board member and Chairman of the German Association for Sensor Technology AMA and of Sensor + Test trade show and conference from 2001 until 2009, and serves on a number of company and public private partnership advisory boards and international conference steering committees such as the NIH/NINDS Neural Interfaces Conference. He is author of over 190 journal and conference publications, 5 book chapters and 16 pending patents.
	Ron Weiss, Department of Pathology (801-584-5188, weissrl@aruplab.com): Ronald Weiss is professor of Pathology in the University of Utah's School of Medicine, and has an active clinical practice in hematopathology. Until July 1, 2010, Dr Weiss held a variety of executive management positions in the University's ARUP Laboratories, including six years as President & Chief Operating Officer. ARUP is a private enterprise of the University which provides medical laboratory services to hundreds hospital and independent laboratories around the country. He received his MD degree from Creighton University (1980) and his M.B.A. from the University of Utah (1989). Dr. Weiss' interests also include health policy and laboratory management, areas in which he both writes and speaks nationally.
	Charles A. Wight, Department of Chemistry (cwight@weber.edu): Chuck Wight is Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Utah. Wight's research is focused on the chemistry of high explosives and rocket propellants. In collaboration with the Center for Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions, Chuck and his students write software for simulating explosions and detonations on massively parallel computer platforms. This research is aimed at developing the predictive capability of peta-scale computer simulations. The overarching goal is to improve the safety of manufacture, storage and transportation of energetic materials. Chuck is co-author of over 150 journal articles, 2 books, and 1 patent. He is a co-founder of RUReady, a web-based learning tool for developmental math education, which formed the basis of a recent University of Utah startup company. Chuck is also the founder and chief software architect of ChemVantage.org, an Open Education Resource for supporting teaching, learning and student success in college-level General Chemistry courses. Chuck retired from the EFS Executive Committee when he began his new role as President of Weber State University on Jan. 1, 2013.
	Carl Wittwer, School of Medicine (801-581-4737, carl.wittwer@path.utah.edu):Carl Wittwer, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah Medical School with over 180 publications that focus on technique and instrument development in molecular diagnostics. He is also a technical vice president and medical director of the clinical laboratory, ARUP, where he initiated molecular diagnostics during the 1990s. In addition, he is Chief Science Officer of Idaho Technology, a company he co-founded in 1990 that now employs over 250 people that is located within the University of Utah Research Park. Dr. Wittwer holds 26 US patents and their foreign equivalents and is the primary inventor of the LightCycler® real-time PCR system with over 8,000 units placed worldwide by Roche. He received small business innovation awards in 1999 and 2002, the State of Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology in 2003 and the AMP award for excellence in molecular diagnostics in 2008. He current focus is high-resolution DNA melting of PCR products for genotyping, mutation scanning, and sequence identity. Learn more at www.dna.utah.edu.