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Michele
                      Calos

Michele Pamela Calos

Professor
Department of Genetics

Biographical Information

Academic History

B.A. Oxford University, Oxford, England, (Zoology).

Ph.D. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), laboratory of Walter Gilbert (Prix Nobel, 1980).

Post-doctoral training:
Universite de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland, (Biologie Moleculaire), laboratory of Jeffrey H. Miller.

Co-taught Bacterial Genetics course with Jeffrey H. Miller, Beijing, China.

Employment History

Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor.

Selected Academic Honors and Awards

National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Suisse Ligue Contre Le Cancer Postdoctoral Fellowship

Searle Scholar Award, one of 19 starting Assistant Professors chosen nationally for outstanding promise in biomedical research.

Agnes Axtell Moule Faculty Scholar

Mellon Foundation Fellow

Henry J. Kaiser Award for Teaching Excellence, June, 1987, teaching award voted by medical students for outstanding achievement as teacher and course organizer of Human Genetics 201.

Featured Speaker for Symposium, “Directed Therapeutics: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Medicine”, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 18, 2003.

Plenary Speaker, Genetics Society of America, Annual Meeting, Jan. 5 – 9, 2008, San Diego, CA, “Engineering human cells via gene transfer”.

National Service

FDA service

Advisory Committee, Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies, United States Food and Drug Administration, 2004 – 2008.

Site Visit to United States Food and Drug Administration Laboratories, February, 2005.

Chair, Site Visit Committee for Tumor Vaccines and Biotechnology Branch, United States Food and Drug Administration CBER,September, 2006.

Consultant, United States Food and Drug Administration, 2008 – 2012.

Consultant, United States Food and Drug Administration, 2012 – 2016.

National Study Section Panels

American Cancer Society Study Section, Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis, 1988 – 1991.

National Science Foundation Study Section, Biochemical Genetics, 1994 – 1998.

National Institutes of Health Study Section, Gene Therapy and Inborn Errors, 2003 – 2004.

National Institutes of Health Study Section (Ad Hoc), Genome, 2004.

National Institutes of Health Study Section, Non-Viral Systems for Gene Therapy, 2007.

Ad Hoc Grant Review

Examples of service for U.S. and foreign agencies and foundations:

National Institutes of Health, Medical Biochemistry Study Section
National Institutes of Health, Gene Therapy Conference Grants
National Science Foundation, DNA Replication Conference Grants
Welcome Trust, U.K., grant proposals
Israel Science Foundation, grant proposals
Netherlands Cancer Society, grant proposals
Telethon Italy, grant proposals
German-Israeli Foundation for Research & Development, grant proposals

Current and Recent Service for Professional Societies

Physical Gene and Cell Therapy and Vectorology Committee, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2010 – 2013.

Membership Committee, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2010 – 2013.

Abstract reviewer, Gene Regulation, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2011.

Nominating Committee for 2011 elections, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

Board of Directors, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (elected by membership), June 2007 - June 2010.

Coordinating Reviewer, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, DNA Vectorology and Gene Targeting abstracts, February, 2010.

Non-Viral Gene Transfer Vectors Committee, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2007 – 2010.

Non-Viral Gene Transfer Vectors Committee, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2004 – 2007.

Coordinating Reviewer, DNA Vectorology abstracts, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2007.

Abstract Reviewer, DNA Vectorology, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, 2006.

Vector Committee, European Society of Gene Therapy, 2003 – 2006.

Professional Society Affiliations

American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy
International Society for Stem Cell Research
American Association for the Advancement of Science
European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy
American Society for Microbiology

Ad Hoc Journal Reviews

Service for a wide range of journals including Proc. Natl. Acad, Sci. USA, Nature, Science, Nature Methods, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Protocols, Nature Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Trends Microbiology, BMC Biotechnology, Journal of Virology, Molecular Therapy, Gene Therapy, Human Gene Therapy, Gene, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, BioTechniques, PloSGenetics, and others.

Stanford Service

University:

Senator, 19th Senate of the Academic Council.

Administrative Panel on Radiological Safety, 1993-94.

Senator, Alternate, University Senate of the Academic Council, 1993- 1995.

Grant reviewer, URO Undergraduate Research Awards, 1996.

Proposal evaluation, Office of Technology Licensing, 2001.

Administrative Panel on Biosafety, Alternate, 1999 – 2002.

Symposium on Women in Science, Center for Women, May, 2005.

School of Medicine:

Medical School Senate Executive Committee (Committee of Five).

Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Admissions.

Steering Committee for Study of the Future of the Academic Medical Center.

Cancer Biology Program Committee.

Established Genetics Seminar Program, year-long series with graduate student lunches and faculty dinners with invited seminar speakers.

Science Day Committee.

Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Committee, 1987- 1991.

Founding member, Combined Admissions Mode Committee, later called CGAP, 1987 – 1993. This committee converted graduate student admissions from strictly Department-based, to the joint admissions program we now have.

American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Committee, 1987 – 1992.

Katharine McCormick Fund Grant Committee, 1987 – 1989.

Faculty sponsor, Genetics Research Colloquium, 1987-1988.

Senator-at-Large, Medical School Faculty Senate, 1989-1991.

School of Medicine Radioisotope Committee (Non-Human Use), 1989 – 1994.

Chair, School of Medicine Radioisotope Committee (Non-Human Use), 1992- 1994.

Women Faculty Steering Committee, 1993-1994.

Cancer Biology Program Committee, second term 1993-1996.

Organized Monday Social Program and Faculty Lunch Program, 1993-94.

Senator, Medical School Faculty Senate, 1993-1996.

Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics/Gene Therapy, Department of Pediatrics,1999.

Dept. Alternate to Medical School Faculty Senate, 1999-2000, 2001-02.

Chair, Katherine McCormick Fund Lectureship Committee, 2000-01 and 2001-02, (organized and hosted seminars and receptions for invited McCormick lecturers Susan Lindquist and Brigid Hogan).

Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Aging, Department of Neurology, 2002.

Dermatology Advisory Board, 2002 – 2006.

Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Human Gene Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, 2005-2006.

Mentor, Stanford Summer Research Program in Biomedical Sciences for Minority Students, 1994, 2008, 2011, 2012.

Department of Psychiatry, Search Committee for Chairman, 2009.

Appointments and Promotions Committee of the Medical School, January, 2008 – December, 2010; Chair from 9/09 – 12/10. Ad hoc member: 2011 – present.

Senator, Medical School Faculty Senate, 2011 – 2014.

Faculty Search Committee, Department of Genetics, 2011 – 2012.

Genetics Graduate Student Admissions Committee, 1998 - 2001, 2012 - 2013.

Senator, Medical School Faculty Senate, 2011 – 2014.

Faculty Search Committee, Department of Genetics, 2011 – 2012.

 
 
 
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Last updated on Nov 26, 2012