Martin Apple
Membership-at-Large Constituency Director
President
Council of Scientific Society Presidents

Martin Apple is the president of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, the unique association of top science leaders from disciplinary research associations that encompass over 1 million researchers in more than 150 disciplines. He has made many contributions to areas of biochemical and pharmaceutical science, agriculture, education and medicine and has dedicated much of his time to bringing diverse ideas, people, disciplines and visions of the future into productive alliances. He initiated a pioneering research institute dedicated to agricultural molecular genetics for improving the yield and nutrient quality of food plants. He led a collaborative program that developed one of the first computer-assisted receptor-based drug designs to receive a patent. He also has managed or co-led several large long-term NSF-funded studies of science education reform and of science teacher education reform. He served on Executive Board of the Congressionally chartered National Agriculture Research, Economics, Education and Extension Board (NAREEE). He was a fellow and an elected regent of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. While on the faculty of the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, he chaired a unique new drug research alliance of top principal investigators. In the late 1970's he worked for various periods around the globe on introducing new technology into agriculture. He facilitated the start of a novel International Network of Asian Women Entrepreneurs. His many honors inclued a Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Service Award and two awards from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. He has served as vice-chairman of the Asia-focused East-West Center Association and two terms as the Board of Visitors chairman during a renaissance of the five research centers of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Apple received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California (UCSF and UC Berkeley) in 1968 and was elected to the UC Berkeley Sigma Xi Chapter.