ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1/1/67-6/30/73 Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University
7/1/73-6/30/77 Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University
9/1/75-8/31/76 Sabbatical Leave Ruakura Agricultural Research Center, Hamilton, New Zealand
7/1/77-6/1/87 Professor Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University
7/1/80-6/30/84 Associate Director Environmental Toxicology Center, Michigan State University
1/1/85-5/3l/87 Director Center for the Study of Active Oxygen in Biology and Medicine, Michigan State University
6/1/87-6/30/91 Director Center of Excellence in Biotechnology, Utah State University
6/1/87-present Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University
  Professor Interdepartmental Program in Toxicology, Utah State University

INDUSTRIAL APPOINTMENTS

  Founder Intech One-Eighty Corporation
P.O. Box 6218, North Logan, UT 84341
Intech is the exclusive licensee of Utah State University for White-Rot Fungi bioremediation technology.

PATENTS

U.S. Patent #4,891,320 "Methods for the degradation of environmentally persistent organic compounds using white rot fungi" S.D. Aust
J.A. Bumpus
M. Tien
Canadian Patent #1,283,872 "Process for the degradation of environmentally persistent organic compounds" S.D. Aust
M. Tien
J.A. Bumpus
U.S. Patent #5,085,998 "Biodegradation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene by white rot fungus" C.A. Lebron
L.A. Karr
T. Fernando
S.D. Aust
U.S. Patent #5,459,065 "Process for the degradation of coal tar and its constituents by Phanerochaete chrysosporium" S.D. Aust
J.A. Bumpus
Patent pending "Compounds and methods for generating oxygen and free radicals used in general oxidation and reduction reactions" M.M. Shah
S.D. Aust
D.P. Barr
T.A. Grover
N. Chung
Patent pending "Methods for the biodegradation of environmental pollutants" J.D. Stahl
S.D. Aust

HONORS AND AWARDS

1966 USPHS Postdoctoral Fellowship Department of Toxicology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1974 Swedish Medical Research Council Fellowship (Awarded, not accepted)  
l975 NRC Facial Eczema Fellowship Ruakura Agricultural Research Center, Hamilton, New Zealand
1988 DuPont Science and Engineering Award  
1992 Fellow The Academy of Toxicology Sciences
1994 Fellow The Oxygen Society
1997 Alumni Achievement Award Washington State University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1978-Present Advisory Committee on the Toxicology Information Program National Academy of Science-National Research Council
7/78-Present Editorial Board Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
1/79-6/83 Commissioner Michigan Toxic Substances Control Commission
1/81-6/83 Chairman
1980-1983 Editorial Board Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
2/84-3/87 Associate Editor Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
6/79-6/83 Member Toxicology Study Section, National Institutes of Health
7/80-6/83 Consultant Sampling Protocols Study Group, Science Advisory Board, Environmental Protection Agency
7/80-6/81 Consultant Center for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services
10/81-12/82 Member Governor's Cabinet on Hazardous Substances
2/82-12/84 Member National Library of Medicine, Toxicology Data Bank Review Committee
4/84-Present Associate Editor Journal of Biochemical Toxicology
7/84-Present Editorial Board Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine
11/84-1/87 Editorial Board Advances in Free Radical Biology and Medicine
l987 Chairman Gordon Research Conference on Mechanisms of Toxicity
l989 Chairman Gordon Research Conference on Oxygen Radicals in Biology
7/l/87-Present Consultant Astra Arcus USA
l987-Present Consultant The William A. Hillenbrand Center for Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
3/89-6/30/92 Editorial Board Molecular Toxicology
1990-1992 Member Regulatory Affairs and Legislative Assistance Committee, Society of Toxicology
1992-1993 President Mountain West Chapter, Society of Toxicology
1995-Present Member External Advisory Committee, Dartmouth Superfund Program
3/1/98-4/30/99 Member Advisory Panel for the Metabolic Biochemistry Program, National Science Foundation
4/30/98-5/2/98 Member EPA/DOE/NSF/ONR Joint Program on Bioremediation
  Member EPA Peer Review Panel for Futures: Natural Sciences

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Biological Chemists
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
(Drug Metabolism Division)
Society of Toxicology (Section for Mechanism, Section for Molecular Biology)
International Union of Pharmacology (Section on Toxicology)
Society for Free Radical Research
American Chemical Society
International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
American Society for Microbiology
The Oxygen Society
The Nitric Oxide Society

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