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R.E.W. Hancock: Appointments, Consulting and other service   Appointments (Academic and Honourary) §           2008-. Citizenship Judge (Presiding Officer at Canadian Citizenship ceremonies) §         2003-10 Centre for Drug Research and Development, Steering Committee, Joint Development Committee. §           2004-05, Centre for Drug Research and Development, Chair, Drug Evaluation and Selection Committee. §           2005-10  Co-Director, Pathogenomics of Innate Immunity Program (Genome Canada) §           2002-05  Co-Director, Functional Pathogenomics of Mucosal Immunity Program. §           2002 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology §           2001-02 President and Founder, Inimex Pharmaceuticals Inc §           2001 Officer of the Order of Canada §           2001-14 Canada Research Chair in Microbiology/Genomics and Health cluster at UBC. §           2000-02 Member of the Executive Group to coordinate Canadian Food Microbiology activities. §           2000 Genome BC implementation committee. §           2000 MRC CIHR Institute Simulation committee. §           1998-02 Chair, PseudoCAP (Pseudomonas aeruginosa community genome annotation project) §           1997- Director, UBC Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research §           1994 WHO Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Surveillance §           1989-96 Founding Scientific Director, Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network §           1987-93 Medical Scientific Advisory Cte, Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Chair, 90-93. §           1986- Professor, Microbiology, University of British Columbia §           1985-86 President, North West Branch, American Society for Microbiology §           1984-85 Vice President, North West Branch, American Society for Microbiology §           1983- Associate Member, Pediatrics, University of British Columbia §           1983-86 Associate Professor with tenure, Microbiology, University of British Columbia §           1978-83 Assistant Professor, Microbiology, University of British Columbia §           1977-78 Research Bacteriologist I, University of California, Berkeley §           1975-77 Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiat, University Tubingen, Germany     Memberships on scholarly societies §           Member of American Society for Microbiology, 1977-. §           Member of Infectious Diseases Society of America, 1983-. §           Member of Canadian Society of Microbiologists 1985-89; 1991-. §           Member of Association for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics 1985-. §           Member of the Canadian Society for Systems Biology 2008-.     Memberships on scholarly committees §           President, Northwest Branch, American Society for Microbiology, 1985-86. §           Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Medical/Scientific Advisory Cte Exec. 1988-93. §           Vaccine Evaluation Centre, Advisory Board, 1988-92. §           MRC Grants committee for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 1982-84. §           Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Grants Committee, 1987-90. §           Member of Alberta Heritage FMR Scholarship Applications Advisory Committee, 1989-90. §           Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, MSAC Chair, 1990-93. §           Canadian Society of Microbiologists, CSM Awards Committee, 1994-7; Chair, 1997. §           Fellowship Review Committee, Life Sciences Div., Academy III, Royal Society of Canada, 1998-2001. §           UBC CIHR transition committee. 1999- 2000. §           CIHR Standing Committee in BC. 2000-. §           Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute Simulation Committee, Feb - Mar, 2000. §           Scientific Advisory Committee, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Founding member, 2000-3. §           Vancouver Hospitals HSC Microbial Pathogenesis Review Committee, 2000-2. §           Canada Research Chairs College of reviewers, 2001-. §           BC Biotech Awards Committee 2001-4. §           Health Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowships Review Committee, 2004. §           Mike Smith Foundation for Medical Research – New Opportunities Task Force, 2004. §           Consultant reviewer, CIHR Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Grants Review Cte, 2005, 2006, 2007.  §           Promega Biotechnology Research Award Selection Cte, American Academy of Microbiology 2005-8. §           Advisory Board, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 2006-. §           Coordinator and White paper main author, Canada California Cooperation Network, 2006, 2008. §           International Neuropeptide Society: President, Bacterial/Antibiotic Peptide Group 2007-. §           Advisory Board, Webster Centre for Molecular Research in Infectious Diseases, U. Otago, 2007-. §           Advisory Board, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, UBC, 2007-. §           Presented (with Dr. Lorne Tyrell) White paper on Infection and Immunity to Genome Canada, 2008. §           Nominations Committee for the Sanofi-AventisAward, July 2009-2012. §           Consultant reviewer, CIHR Pharmacology & Toxicology Grants Review Panel, 2009. §           Consultant reviewer, CIHR Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Grants Review Panel, 2009. §           Steering Committee (and co-founder), UBC Neglected Global Diseases Initiative, 2009-. §           Steering Committee, Gates Foundation Grand Challenge program. “Linking innate and specific immunity to         develop single-dose vaccines for neonates”. 2008-11. §           Nominations Committee for the Sanofi-Aventis Award, 2009-2012. §           Advisor, Accessible Science Initiative (student initiative to provide science education in developing         countries), 2009-. §           Reviewer for Canadian Foundation for Innovation, 2009-.     Editorships §           Editorial Board, Journal of Bacteriology, 1982-90. §           Editorial Board, Infection and Immunity, 1986-89. §           Editorial Board, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1987-07. §           Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Microbiology 1988-90. §           Editorial Board, Current Biology, 1997 - §           International Advisory Board, Current Microbiology and Infection, 1996 - §           Current Opinion in Microbiology, Antimicrobials issue editor, October 1998. §           Drug Resistance Updates, 1997- §           Editorial Board, The Infectious Diseases Review, 1998- §           Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Anti-infective Drugs, 1998- §           Editorial Board, Peptides, 2005- §           Editorial Board, Microbial Drug Resistance 2009- §           Editorial Board, Annual Reviews in Antimicrobial Therapeutics 2009-     External examiner §           Ken Jarrell, Queens University, 1989. §           X.Wa Wong, University of Alberta, 1994. §           Dmitrii Rodionov, University of Victoria, 1996. §           John McCormick, University of Alberta, 1997. §           Ellen James, University of Otago, 1998. §           Mary Burtnik, University of Calgary, 2001. §           Hilde Ulvatne, University of Tromso, 2002. §           Ørjan Samuelsen, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromso, 2005. §           Sarah Marjorie Sanowar, McGill University, 2005. §           Erin van Schaik, University of Alberta, 2006. §           Li Peng, National University of Singapore, 2006. §           Nicole van der Weerden, La Trobe University, 2007. §           Kara M Swanson, University Otago, 2007. §           Donna S. Easton, University Canberra, 2008     Consultant §           Centocor Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1983-86. §           Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Ltd., Syracuse, New York, 1984-91. §           Oncogen, Seattle, WA, 1988-91. §           Genta Inc., San Diego, 1993-95 §           Cubist Pharmaceuticals, 1994. §           Micrologix Biotech Inc, Vancouver, BC, 1994-98. §           Affymax Inc., Santa Clara, CA., 1995. §           Gruppo Lepetit (Marion Merrill Dow), Geranzano, Italy, 1995. §           Vicuron (formerly Versicor), San Francisco, CA, 1996- §           Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 1996-7. §           Proctor-Gamble, Connecticut, 1997. §           Canadian Inovatech, Abbottsford, BC, 1997-2000. §           Pathogenesis, Seattle, 1998. §           Becton Dickinson, Raleigh Durham, 1998. §           Geltex, Boston, 1998-9. §           Synphar Inc, Edmonton, 1998-2000. §           National Research Council, 1999-2000. §           Smart & Biggar/Astra, 2000. §           Helix Biomedix, 2001-4. §           Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, 2001. §           Symyx, 2002. §           Inimex Pharmaceuticals Inc., 2003- §           Corus Pharma, 2004-5. §           Novartis, 2006-10. §           Cutanea, 2007. §           Polymedix, 2007. §           MicuRx, 2007-. §           Indel, 2007 §           Vertex 2009.     Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards §           Board of Directors, Micrologix Biotech Inc., Vancouver, 1992-95. §           Scientific Advisory Board, Chair, Micrologix Biotech Inc., Vancouver, 1995-98. §           Scientific Advisory Board, Infectious Diseases Biomedical Inc., Vancouver, 1992-95. §           Board of Directors, Canadian Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 1994-96. §           Board of Directors, Chair, David Elford Holding Company, 1995-97. §           Board of Directors, Novadex Inc., B.C. 1995-96. §           Scientific Advisory Board, Versicor, San Francisco, 1995-. §           Advisory Board, Polydex Inc, New York, 1996-8. §           Scientific Advisory Board, Welichem, Vancouver, 1996-. §           Chair, Board of Directors, David Elford Forest Management Ltd., 1997-02 §           President and Board of Directors, Inimex Pharmaceuticals, Vancouver, 2001-. §           Carded field hockey umpire since 2001. §           Medical Advisory Board, medbroadcast.com, 2002 §           Scientific Advisory Board, PolyBatics Inc, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2005-. §           Chief Judge of Biotechnology, Canada Wide Scientific Fair, May 16-18, 2005. Approximately 30 other         instances of participation as a judge in local, regional and Canada-wide science Fairs and High Schools         Debating Tournaments. §           Director, REWH Consulting Inc, Vancouver 2008-.

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