Frank L. Douglas
Frank L. Douglas M.D., Ph.D. is a Guyanese American medical doctor and researcher. Douglas resigned from his appointment as a professor of practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in July 2007 after the university's administration refused to consider granting Assistant Professor James Sherley tenure.[1][2]
Douglas graduated from Lehigh University, received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, and a fellowship in neuroendocrinology at the National Institutes of Health. Douglas taught clinical pharmacology at the Pritzker School of Medicine before becoming a professor of practice at MIT and establishing the Center for Biomedical Innovation Management.[3]
Douglas currently sits on the Board of Trustees at Lehigh University and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main as well as the board of directors at NitroMed, Gene Logic, and Altanos Pharmaceuticals Holding.
[edit] External links
- MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation biography
- Discrimination in academia – The Scientist article by Douglas
Dr Frank L. Douglas is a Guyanese American medical doctor and researcher. He is a 2010 GQ magazine Rock Star of Science and a 2007 Black History Maker Awardee. He was twice the recipient of the Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development Director of Year Award. Dr Douglas is a twenty-four year veteran of the Pharmaceutical industry where he held several leadership positions, including Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President responsible for Research and Development, and member of the Board of Management of Aventis AG. He is presently President and CEO of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron. Prior to this he was founder and first executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation from which he resigned to protest the treatment of another professor, who was denied tenure at MIT. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Multiple Myeloma Foundation, and trustee of Akron Tomorrow. He is lead author of the White Paper, entitled: Value-Driven Engineering and U,S, Competitiveness: A call for a Platform to Advance Value- Driven Engineering.
[edit] References
- ^ "MIT professor resigns to protest colleague's tenure denial". Associated Press. June 4, 2007. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/04/america/NA-GEN-US-Professor-Hunger-Strike.php. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
- ^ "Climate of Discrimination Was Reason for Resignations, Claims Former MIT Professor in The Scientist". Business Wire. August 8, 2007.
- ^ "People - Frank L. Douglas, Ph.D., M.D.". MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation. http://web.mit.edu/cbi/people/Douglas_bio.html. Retrieved 2008-08-12.[dead link]
