Dr. Glick's research resulted in a book, "Fundamentals of Human Lymphoid Cell Culture" as well as several patents and 186 professional articles in a wide variety of fields.
LUTZ, FL, August 30, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name J. Leslie Glick, PhD, a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Dr. Glick celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
The founder and co-founder of several organizations throughout his career, Dr. Glick was chief executive officer of Bionix Corporation, a neurospecialty company that he formed in 1987 and managed until 1993. From 1977 to 1987, he was chief executive officer of Genex Corporation, the second oldest genetic engineering company formed after the discovery of gene splicing that manufactured fine chemicals by means of biotechnology. In 1981, Dr. Glick co-founded and served as the first president of the Industrial Biotechnology Association, now known as BIO, the world's largest biotechnology trade association. From 1969 to 1977, he served successively as executive vice president, president, and chairman of Associated Biomedic Systems, Inc., a biologicals manufacturing firm and life sciences research company. He also founded and from 1975 to 1978 was president of the Institute for Scientific and Social Accountability, Inc.
Trained in molecular and cell biology, Dr. Glick spent more than two decades in genetic engineering. Over the course of his career, he has studied micronutrient involvement in dementias, biocatalytic applications development, hematopoietic cell differentiation, genetic transformation of mammalian cells, and biochemotherapy of tumors, to name a few.
After completing a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University in 1965, Dr. Glick was a cancer research scientist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, where from 1968 to 1970 he also served as associate professor and chairman of physiology of the Roswell Park Division of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Because his transition into the business world was quite smooth and very successful, he subsequently served as adjunct professor of technology management at University of Maryland University College Graduate School from 1988 to 2004.
Other universities and colleges at which Dr. Glick has served as a visiting lecturer, adjunct professor, doctorial thesis examiner, or on advisory boards include Asian Institute of Technology, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Canisius College, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Technological University, Niagara University, and University of Western Sydney. He has also served on advisory committees for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Research Council.
Since 1993, Dr. Glick has been extensively engaged as a management consultant to corporate officers, investment bankers, and entrepreneurs. He has also been a member of the board of directors for a number of companies, and has served as chairman for several of those boards. In addition, he has served on editorial boards of several management journals and from 1992 to 2001 was editor-in-chief of Technology Management, a journal that he co-founded.
Dr. Glick's research resulted in a book, "Fundamentals of Human Lymphoid Cell Culture," in 1980, as well as several patents and 186 professional articles in a wide variety of fields, including basic and applied biomedical science, management and business, and societal issues and public policy. His most recent articles included "Management Tenets that Hold for Biotech" and "Tough Fixes Not in a Startup's Playbook", both of which were published in 2017.
A member of a number of professional organizations over the years, Dr. Glick received a BA in 1961 and a PhD in 1964 from Columbia University. The recipient of a John S. Newberry Prize from Columbia University in 1964 for his doctoral thesis, as well as many research grants and contracts that date back to the mid 1960s, he is known for having appeared as a guest on several television and radio programs that were broadcast by major networks in the U.S. and Europe, and has been featured in many articles, newspapers, and magazines in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia for his work that focused on entrepreneurship and scientific, commercial, legal, and ethical issues in biotechnology. Dr. Glick has also been included in many editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Married with two children and three grandchildren, Dr. Glick enjoys the jazz guitar, running, and powerwalking.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, J. Leslie Glick, PhD, has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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