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David Galas: Founding Chief Academic Officer and Chancellor of the Keck Graduate Institute
David Galas: Founding Chief Academic Officer and Chancellor of the Keck Graduate Institute
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76 minutes
Released:
Jun 14, 2021
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Podcast episode
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David Galas describes his unusual journey from Air Force brat to theoretical physicist to Systems Biologist in charge of the Human Genome Project for the U.S. Department of Energy. He then became a bioscience entrepreneur creating both a string of start-up companies and co-founding, along with Hank Riggs, the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Science, the 7th and newest of the Claremont Colleges. He describes their unusual partnership and what led Hank to create KGI after his successful tenures as President of Harvey Mudd College and leading the first billion-dollar campaign in higher education for Stanford University. Together with the founding faculty they created the first higher education institution with the mission of bridging the gap between scientists and business to develop leaders who could help commercialize the exciting breakthroughs coming from the life science revolution.
David Finegold is the president of Chatham University.
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Released:
Jun 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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