Salk Institute Board of Trustees elects leaders in venture capital and publishing to its membership

November 23, 2009

Salk Institute Board of Trustees elects leaders in venture capital and publishing to its membership

November 23, 2009

LA JOLLA, CA—The Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies unanimously voted to elect three new members during its November 13 meeting in La Jolla.

Fred Dotzler is a co-founder and Managing Director of De Novo Ventures in Palo Alto, California. De Novo is investing $650 million from three funds in early stage medical device and biotechnology companies. Fred founded Medicus Venture Partners in 1989. He has invested in four companies that achieved market values greater than $1 billion: San Diego-based Biosite (acquired by IMC), Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Omnicell, and Tularik Inc. (acquired by Amgen). Prior to venture capital, Fred served in positions in marketing, finance, and operations for Searle, Millipore, Merrimack Laboratories, and IBM. Fred earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, a master’s equivalent in Economics from the University of Louvain, Belgium, and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Iowa State University, where he received a Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering in 2000.

The Salk Board of Trustees also elected literary agent and Rancho Santa Fe resident Linda Chester. She begins her three-year term after having served as liaison to the Board for the Institute’s International Council. Linda is founding president of the Linda Chester Literary Agency, which has bi-coastal offices and has represented many bestselling authors. Her agency represents a wide variety of adult literary and commercial fiction, as well as an array of non-fiction projects in areas that include science, business, finance, history, popular culture, spirituality, and biography. The agency’s clients have included Wally Lamb (She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, and The Hour I First Believed), Lolly Winston (Good Grief and Happiness Sold Separately), Richard Carlson (of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff), James Hansen (First man, the first authorized biography of Neil Armstrong), the Thich Nhat Hanh estate, and Linda is currently working with Michael Feinstein. In addition, Linda serves on the board of The La Jolla Playhouse as well as The National Center for Family Literacy.

Mary Jane Salk, who also comes from the publishing world, is replacing Linda Chester as International Council liaison. She has served as editor of Magazine Management and editorial director of Transworld Feature Syndicate, an international magazine consortium. The widow of Dr. Lee Salk, brother to Dr. Jonas Salk, Mary Jane is the author of five young adult books for Chelsea House Publishers, and was associate producer of the feature films Goodbye, New York and Forever Lulu. She currently is a board member of several organizations, including Daytop Village Foundation, the oldest drug-free self-help program in the United States, and The Doe Fund, a cost-effective, holistic program that breaks the cycles of homelessness, addiction, and criminal recidivism in New York City and Philadelphia.

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索尔克生物学研究所是世界顶尖的基础研究机构之一，其国际知名的教职员工在一个独特的、协作和富有创造性的环境中，致力于探索生命科学的基本问题。索尔克科学家们既专注于科学发现，也致力于培养下一代研究人员，通过研究神经科学、遗传学、细胞生物学和植物生物学及相关学科，为我们理解癌症、衰老、阿尔茨海默病、糖尿病和心血管疾病做出了开创性贡献。.

学院取得了许多成就，获得了包括诺贝尔奖和美国国家科学院院士在内的无数荣誉。该研究所由脊髓灰质炎疫苗先驱 Jonas Salk 博士于 1960 年创立，是一家独立的非营利组织和建筑地标。.