Corey Goodman

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Corey Scott Goodman (born June 29, 1951 in Chicago ) is an American neurobiologist and entrepreneur. He studied biology at Stanford University and received his PhD in neurobiology from Berkeley University . In 1980 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ).

He is a professor at the University of California at San Francisco and was previously professor at Berkeley University and Stanford University. He also advises a number of biotechnology companies such as iZumi Inc.

Goodman co-founded the biotech company Renovis and ran the company from 2001 to 2007 when the merger with Hamburg- based Evotec AG was completed. He was also one of the founders of Exelixis Inc.

In October 2007 he became President of the Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center (BBC). The pharmaceutical company Pfizer had the BBC, to which the company Coley Pharmaceutical with location u. a. in Düsseldorf , launched to accelerate research on biotherapeutics . Goodman retired from the BBC on May 31, 2009. He then took on an executive position at an environmental technology company.

Goodman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1995), which advises the US government on scientific issues, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1993) and the American Philosophical Society (since 1999). He was also awarded the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1992 , the Neuronal Plasticity Prize in 1996 and the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1997 . In 2001 he received the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology , and in 2020 the Gruber Prize for Neuroscience .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Corey S. Goodman ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Forbes.com, August 14, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / people.forbes.com
  2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed July 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Corey Goodman's next (cleantech) move San Francisco Business Times, June 26, 2009
  4. ^ Pfizer's SF-based biotech chief to leave San Francisco Business Times, May 1, 2009
  5. ↑ Corey S. Goodman PhD ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved December 14, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gairdner.org
personal data
SURNAME Goodman, Corey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodman, Corey Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neurobiologist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago