Douglas Ishii
Colorado State University, USA
Biography
Douglas N. Ishii was born in a concentration camp in California at the onset of W.W.II. He received a B.A. in biochemistry at Univ. Calif. Berkeley, a Ph.D. in pharmacology at Stanford Univ. School of Medicine, and conducted postdoctoral studies in neurobiology at the same institution. He was Assoc. Prof. Pharmacology at Columbia Univ. N.Y.C., and is presently Prof. Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State Univ. He has served on many scientific review panels for N.I.H., N.S.F., and Juvenile Diabetes Found. Internatl. Awards include 20 issued patents for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Ishii is a founder of Aurogen Inc., a biotechnology company dedicated to developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.