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Hoffman, Neil

Faculty member in Department of Plant Pathology at Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC (1988-99).

Research manager at the biotechnology firm Paradigm Genetics (1999-2002). The company (now Icoria) has collaborative programs with the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as well as with Bayer, Monsanto, and other biotechnology corporations (1)

Program director at the Molecular and Cellular Biology Division at the National Science Foundation.

As of 2004 was Director of Regulatory Programs, Biotechnology Regulatory Services at U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (since 2003). (2)



Endnotes:

(1) Icoria website at http://www.icoria.com/collaborations , accessed April 11, 2005.

(2) See http://129.186.108.103/2004CONF/pdf/hoffman.pdf , accessed April 11, 2005.