Professional Experience

1960 - 1962      Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1962 - 1965      Visiting Fellow and Visiting Associate,
                         Laboratory of Chemistry, National Institute of Arthritis and
                         Metabolic Diseases,
                         National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1965 - 1981      Research Chemist,
                         National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,
                         National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1967 - 1981     Adjunct Professor of Chemistry,
                        Georgetown University, Washington, DC

1981 - 1988     Chief, Information Technology Branch,
                        Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of  Cancer Treatment  
                        National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD

1988 - 1999     Research Chemist, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry,
                        Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment, 
                        National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

1989 - 2005     Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 
                        American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.

1998 - 2004     Chemistry Editor, Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT

Activities

             Editorial Board, Chemico-Biological Interactions (1969-1974)

          Editorial Board, Organic Mass Spectrometry (1973-1981) 

          Editorial Board, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (1989-2005 )

          National Judge, Westinghouse Science Talent Search (1965-1976)

          Consultant, National Bureau of Standards (1976-1998)

          External Ph.D. examiner at George Washington, Georgetown and American
          Universities in Washington and also at the University of New South Wales, Australia,

          Organizer/Chairman at national meetings, particularly of the American Chemical Society
          and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 

          Chairman of the Washington Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (1969-1971)

          Reviewer of grant applications for NIH and NSF as well as similar organizations in Canada, Australia
          a nd Saudi Arabia (1967-2006) 

          Referee of papers and reviewer of books for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal
          of Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Mass Spectrometry and Biomedical Mass
          Spectrometry (1965-present) 

          NHLBI representative, NIH Advisory Committee on Computer Usage (1979-1987)

          NCI representative, NIH Advisory Committee on Computer Usage (1981-1998)

             President, NHLBI Assembly of Scientists (1980-1981).

         President, NIH Interassembly Council of Assemblies of Scientists (1981-1983) 

         Chairman, Mass Spectrometry Subcommittee, Joint Committee of Atomic and Molecular
         Physical Data   (1979-1986)

         NIH Representative, Interagency Steering Committee for the NIH-EPA Chemical Information System.

         Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society: Chairman-elect (1989),
         Chairman (1990), Councillor (1992-1994)

         Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Sciences (1989-2005)

         Associate Editor, Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds (CRC Press) (1992-1998)
 
Professional Societies

            American Chemical Society 

         American Association for the Advancement of Science 

         American Society for Mass Spectrometry
 
Honors and Awards

          Wellcome Foundation Travel Grant (1960) 

        National Academy of Sciences Travel Grants for working visits to the USSR (1968 and 1970) 

        Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999)

        Winner of the 1999 Skolnik award of the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society.
 

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