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WIGHT NAMED
TO COUNCIL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTERS
ATHENS,
Ohio -- David Wight, director of the Edison
Biotechnology Institute
(EBI) at Ohio University, has been elected to the board of
directors of the Council of Biotechnology Centers. The
council, an international group of nonprofit institutional,
research and development organizations, works for the
advancement of biotechnology in areas of economic
development, research, education and training, technology
transfer and societal issues.
The
council is affiliated with the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, which represents more than 850 biotechnology
companies, academic institutions and state biotechnology
centers in 47 states and 26 nations.
Members
are involved in research and development of health care,
agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology
products.
Wight will
serve a two-year term on the board of directors.
"Biotechnology is an exciting field and has tremendous
potential to impact human health.
EBI and
Ohio University have already made important contributions to
the science of biotechnology and drug development," he said.
"I wanted to get more involved in biotechnology policy on a
national and international level. Membership on the CBC
board of directors gives me a voice in an established
organization, and it also gives Ohio University and the
state of Ohio a voice."
Established
at Ohio University in 1984, the Edison Biotechnology
Institute is a biomedical and genetics research institute.
EBI is affiliated with the state of Ohio's Thomas Edison
Program, which partners industry with academia and
government to strengthen industrial competitiveness through
technological innovation.
Wight
received his undergraduate degree from the University of
California at Santa Barbara in 1975 and his master's and
doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan in 1982 and
1985. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Ohio University,
Wight joined the staff of EBI as a research scientist in
1988. He became director in 1995 and completed a master's of
business
administration at Ohio University in 1997.
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