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February
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Directors of Laboratory Animal Resource Center and University-Industry Partnerships Named The Office of the Vice Chancellor-Research has made two key appointments. Clifford R. Roberts, director of University Laboratory Animal Resources at UCLA, has been named director of the Laboratory Animal Resource Center at UCSF, and Christopher T. Scott, past director for research development at Stanford University Medical Center, has been appointed as assistant vice chancellor for University-Industry Partnerships. Roberts will be responsible for planning and overseeing of laboratory animal services, including resource planning and financial management, recruitment and supervision of staff, working with the faculty to develop advanced animal research procedures, and assuring compliance with applicable law and regulations concerning the use of animals in research. He will begin working at UCSF full-time on April 1. Roberts will oversee an annual budget of about $10 million and 100 employees. His major responsibility will be to implement standards which meet the requirements for accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC) and for seeking accreditation of the program; and for developing the highest quality program in support of biomedical research programs. He also will work with faculty and staff in designing new animal facilities on the Parnassus Heights site and at the new UCSF Mission Bay campus. Before being named director of UCLA’s animal laboratories in 1993, Roberts directed the division of veterinary medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Prior to that, he served five years as commander in chief for the US Army Research Unit in Kenya. He earned his doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1964 at Texas A&M University. Scott, whose appointment was effective Feb. 15, will direct the UCSF Office of University-Industry Partnerships (UIP). The office will develop and promote positive working relationships between UCSF faculty and private industry, advance the academic research enterprise, and aid the transfer of university discoveries to the private sector for the public benefit. The UIP Office will be the primary point of contact between UCSF and private industry for research opportunities. Scott will be responsible for overseeing technology licensing, corporate-sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements, clinical trial agreements with private corporations, tracking of patents, as well as the financial management and administrative functions within the office. He will work with Vice Chancellor for Research Zach Hall to develop comprehensive campus policies for innovative relationships with industry and to direct campus planning with respect to intellectual property management and industry-sponsored research. He will be responsible for guiding, directing and coordinating the establishment of scientific collaborations between UCSF and its industrial partners and for organizing the infrastructure necessary to support these relationships. Scott began his career at Stanford in 1988 as research operations manager for the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. Two years later, he was promoted to its associate director, a position he held for nine years. Scott also served for the past two years as executive director of ACCESS, a five-member business unit devoted to the development of clinical trials at Stanford. Scott was named director of research development at Stanford University Medical Center in December 1998. Scott holds a BS in biology and biopsychology from the University of Colorado, Bolder, and is currently in the master of arts program in medical ethics at Stanford University. He is a member of the California Health Care Institute and a consultant to the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. |
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