2013 Assembly of Delegates

Membership-at-Large Director

Name: Richard K. Koehn

Present Position: President and CEO
Organization: SentrX Animal Care, Inc.

Chapter Affiliation: Membership-at-Large

Candidate's Statement: My first Grant-in-Aid of research was from Sigma Xi, shortly after my election to the Society as a graduate student in 1965. After a career of decades of NIH/NSF/DOE research support, more than 100 scientific papers and scores of research lectures in more than 20 countries, I remain committed to increasing the quality and support of research, especially for graduate and undergraduate students. Attesting to my commitment to this effort, I have served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Organization of Tropical Studies, The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell), the Associated Western Universities (Chair), science advisor to two governors (NY and UT), and Commission on Biomedical Research (NY Acad. Medicine). My experience in technology innovation and commercialization is extensive, as the founding director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research (NY, 1983), VP for Research and chair of the External Advisory Board (to the President) on Technology Commercialization at the University of Utah. In the private sector, I am the co-founder of several life science companies and have served on the boards of several corporations and community organizations, including Ballet West and the Alberta Henry Educational Foundation. I am currently the President and CEO of SentrX Animal Care, Inc., a company composed of chemists and chemical engineers, which manufactures proprietary healing biomaterials sold internationally by large pharmaceutical companies.

Biographical Information: USPHS Research Fellow, Arizona State University (1966-67); USPHS Postdoctoral Trainee, University of Kansas (1967); Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Kansas (1967-70); Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (1969-70); Assistant, Associate, Full Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook (1972-92); Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, Stony Brook (1978-1988); Founding Director, Center for Advanced Biomedical Biotechnology, Stony Brook (1983-1992); Vice President for Research and Professor of Biology, University of Utah (1992-2000); President and CEO, Salus Therapeutics, Inc. (2001-2003); Senior Research Advisor, Genta, Inc. (2003-2004); President and CEO, Sentrx Surgical, Inc. (2004-2006); President and CEO, SentrX Animal Care, Inc. (2006-present). Among many awards in academia and business, I should note Entrepreneur of the Year, Inc. Magazine (1991), Guggenheim Fellow (1988), the Utah Governor's Medal in Science & Technology (2006), Distinguished alumnus recognition [(Arizona State U. (2001) and Western Michigan U.(2008)] and election as Fellow of AAAS (1997).

Name: David Moran

Present Position: Adjunct Professor
Organization: George Washington University
Organization: West Virginia University

Chapter Affiliation: Membership-at-Large

Candidate's CV

Candidate's Statement: I am David Moran, and I have served Sigma Xi in numerous positions for the past 40 years… I have been Treasurer of the Society on two occasions: I have served as your representative for the past three years, and I have been a member of the Board of Directors for some 15 years.

Our Society is in crisis… all of us need to join ranks to preserve the mission of Sigma Xi. Our Membership-at-Large constitute the largest "chapter" in the Society, and we all share the same objectives… namely to preserve the extraordinary progress and accomplishments of the Society independent from the interests of any particular university or industrial chapter.

We represent the character of Sigma Xi. We stand apart from the local and institutional interests of our many wonderful Chapters. We represent the unified and collegial spirit of Sigma Xi, and my objective for the next three years is to make that voice a strong and vibrant reminder that Research Science is the most powerful force in society.

Sincerely, 

David Moran

Biographical Information: David Moran has served as Director for the Members-at-Large of Sigma Xi for the past 3 years. He currently serves on the Sigma Xi Executive Committee, and he just completed a term as Treasurer of the Society. In the past, he served as National Treasurer, Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Chapter President, and founder of two chapters of our Society in Washington. He embodies every principle that is critical to the future growth and success of Sigma Xi.

David led the recent program that has been a catalyst to financial solvency of the Society. He continues to support and defend the renovation of our Society as a major force in the future of Scientific Research in this nation. He is a principal leader in our financial and sociological campaign for the future of the Society.

Dr. Moran is a Hydrodynamicist from MIT and a leading internationally renowned and published researcher in Hydrodynamics, Oceanography and Ocean Engineering. He is currently Adjunct Professor, at George Washington University and also at West Virginia University.