Keith Davis

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
• Director, Owensboro Cancer Research Program, Owensboro, KY

EDUCATION:
• BA Biology, Albion College, Albion, Michigan, 1975-1979
• PhD Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1979-1985

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• 1991-1994 Member, Biochemistry, Physiology & Molecular Biology Committee, The American Phytopathological Society
• 2000-2002 Steering Committee Member, North Carolina Plant Molecular Biology Consortium
• 2004-2005 Science and Regulatory Affairs Committee Member, Biotechnology Industry Organization
• 2004-2005 BTEC Industry Advisory Board, North Carolina State University
• 2006-present Board of Directors, Kentucky BioProcessing, LLC, Owensboro, Kentucky
• 2010-present Board of Directors, Kentucky BioAlliance, Louisville, Kentucky

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Development of plant-made pharmaceuticals, activation of gene expression by oxidative stress, the role of cadmium in the initiation of lung cancer, and the development of the soy peptide lunasin as an anticancer agent.

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