September 24, 2003

RICHARD GILPIN JOINS UMBI AS RESEARCH COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR

BALTIMORE, Md.--Richard W. Gilpin, Ph.D., RBP, CBSP has joined us as Research Compliance Coordinator to assist our faculty, staff and administration with research and safety compliance issues. Dr. Gilpin is a registered and certified biological safety professional and has more than 20 years of microbiology research and safety experience.

Prior to joining the staff at UMBI, Gilpin was Assistant Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Biosafety Officer at the University of Maryland Baltimore where he revised the Institutional Biosafety Committee programs and developed a campus-wide bloodborne pathogens exposure control plan.

Earlier, Gilpin served as Biosafety Officer at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital. During that time, he was involved in developing biological research compliance programs, training modules, and containment equipment safety programs. He held faculty appointments in The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Assistant Professor of Medicine) and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences). Previously, he was a Research and Development Manager at Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Systems and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania where he directed the second year medical school microbiology and Immunology course.

Dr. Gilpin is a past Councilor (elected Officer), and Chair of the Technical Resources Committee of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA). He is a past president of the Chesapeake Area Biological Safety Association (ChABSA) and a 35 year member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and is a National Registry of Microbiologists Specialist Microbiologist SM (NRM) certified in Biological Safety Microbiology. Dr Gilpin is also a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of Water Technologies (AWT), and the Campus Safety, Health & Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA).

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The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute was mandated by the state of Maryland legislature in 1985 as "a new paradigm of state economic development in biotech-related sciences." With five major research and education centers across Maryland, UMBI is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. The centers are the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in Rockville; Center for Biosystems Research in College Park; and Center of Marine Biotechnology, Medical Biotechnology Center, and the Institute of Human Virology, all in Baltimore.