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George E. Dambach has been named
FIU’s new vice president
for Research effective Jan. 15, 2004. Formerly the vice president
for Research at Wayne State University, Dambach brings excellent
research leadership and management credentials to his new assignment.
As VP for Research at Wayne State
from 1998-2003, he helped reorganize and modernize Wayn’e research administration and helped increase
the institution’s research expenditures by 45 percent,
leading to improved national rankings in research each year.
Prior to this
university-wide leadership position, Dambach held numerous posts
in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University. From 1974-1980,
he was associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology,
then assumed administrative posts successively as assistant dean
for
Curricular Affairs (1980-1987), assistant dean for Research and
Graduate Programs (1987-1991), and associate dean for Research
and Graduate Programs (1991-1998).
While at Wayne State, Dambach took
an active leadership role in community concerns. He is a member
of the Board and Executive
Committee
of the Karmanos Cancer Institute and the National Advisory Board
of the Merrill Palmer Institute for Child and Family Development.
He has also served in numerous roles for the Michigan Heart Association.
Dambach has a bachelor’s degree
in physiology and a PhD in pharmacology from Ohio State University.
In the late 1960s and
early 1970s, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of
Internal Medicine at Philadelphia General Hospital and a postdoctoral
fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and the Institute of
Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. During that time,
he was also
a Pennsylvania Plan Scholar at the university.
At FIU, Dambach will provide leadership
to maintain and accelerate our progress as a Carnegie-Research
Extensive institution of
higher education. He will also develop and implement a strategy
to expand
the capabilities of the Division of Sponsored Research and
Training.
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