Richard I. Mateles

1990-present President of Candida Corporation, a consulting company specializing in strategic applications of biotechnology in the chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries.

1988-1990 Senior Vice President, Applied Sciences Group, IIT Research Institute, Chicago. Responsibility for contract R & D business in life sciences, chemistry, petroleum and energy, toxicology, and manufacturing.

1980-1988 Vice President of Research, Stauffer Chemical Company, Westport, CT. The research department comprised more than 500 professional, technical, and support personnel working mainly with crop protection products, food ingredients, genetic engineering of microorganisms and plants, and specialty chemicals.

1968-1980 Professor of Applied Microbiology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.

1968-1980 Founder and Member, Board of Directors, of Makor Chemicals Ltd., a science-based manufacturer and marketer of research products.

1968-1977 Director of The Fermentation Unit, Jerusalem, a government-sponsored contract R & D group that executed projects for Israeli and foreign industry.

1960-1970 Faculty member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Head of the biochemical engineering program.

1959-1960 U.S. Public Health Service Post-Doctoral Fellow in Microbiology at the Technische Hogeschool, Delft, The Netherlands.

Education

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956

M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957

Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959

Professional Activities and Honors

Editorial/Advisory boards of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, and Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology: North American Editor (Biotechnology)  

Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering

Marquis Who's Who in America

More than 100 refereed technical articles and reviews, patents, and invited lectures

Directors of Industrial Research

Technology Management Association of Chicago

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Sigma Xi

Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley (1965), and University of Pennsylvania (1978-1979)

Co-Editor, Microbiology Series, Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Council for Chemical Research

Visiting Committee, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology