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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