Prof. Martina Newell-McGloughlin
Director, University of California Systemwide Biotechnology
Research and Education Program
Co-Director, NIH Training Program in Biomolecular Technology
Prof. Martina Newell-McGloughlin, an internationally recognised authority on biotechnology, the science and its societal implications, directs the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program (UCBREP), which covers all ten campuses and the three national Laboratories run by UC, Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos. Prior to this, she was director of the UC Systemwide Life Sciences Informatics Program and the UC Davis Biotechnology Program. She is co-director of an NIH Training Grant in Biomolecular Technology one of only three in California the others being at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
Among her qualifications are a broad knowledge of biotechnology research in academia and industry; experience in developing biotechnology training and education programs; and experience in managing grants programs. She has published numerous papers, articles, book chapters, two books on biotechnology, edited two and has a third in progress. She contributed a chapter on Genetically Modified Microorganisms for Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg’s Encyclopedia of Microbiology. Her personal research experience has been in the areas of disease resistance in plants, scale-up stability for industrial and pharmaceutical production in microbes and microbiological mining. Prof. Newell-McGloughlin has a special interest in Developing World Research and is part of the USAID $19 million Agricultural Biotechnology Research Support Project.
She has served on panels for the UN, the World Bank, the OECD and the World Trade Organization. The UC Davis Academic Federation selected her to receive its 2001 James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2003 the Council for Biotechnology named her one of the DNA Anniversary Year Faces of Innovation among such luminaries as Norm Borlaug, Ingo Potrykus, Barbara McClintock and Roger Beachy. She received a Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
