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Richard B. Marchase, Ph.D. is Professor of Cell Biology and Vice President for Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Marchase earned his undergraduate degree in 1970 from Cornell University, and received the Hamilton Award as the Outstanding Graduate in Science and Engineering. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Biophysics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1976 and did postdoctoral training at Duke University. Following his faculty appointment there, he was honored as a Nanaline H. Duke Scholar. In 1984, he received one of the inaugural Presidential Young Investigator Awards from the National Science Foundation. He moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1986 and from 1990 to 2000 served as Chair of the Department of Cell Biology.
Marchase has several active awards from the National Institutes of Health for research infrastructure and to support his laboratory, which studies the effects of hyperglycemia on recovery from trauma. He is a past member of three Editorial Boards and several federal peer review committees. He served as President of the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology Chairs and as that group’s representative to the National Caucus of Basic Biomedical Science Chairs. He was also on the Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Research Advancement and Development. He has been a member of the Public Affairs Committee of the American Association of Anatomists, served as Chair of their Nominating Committee, and represented them at FASEB Funding Consensus Conferences prior to his joining the FASEB Board of Directors in 2002. Marchase has served on the FASEB Finance Committee and Audit Subcommittee, the Communications Task Force, and the Executive Committee. He chaired the committee recommending consensus funding levels for the National Science Foundation for two years. He was a member of the FASEB Strategic Planning Steering Committee and chaired the Governance Subcommittee. Marchase served as FASEB’s Vice President for Science Policy in 2005-2006 and is now its President-Elect. |
