Randall Smith
Randall received his B.A.  in chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College in 1990, and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry under Dr. Tarek Sammakia at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1994. He studied as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University from 1994 through 1996 under Dr. Ken Feldman. Randall’s industrial experience began [...]

Bill Szabo                                                         
Bill received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lehigh University, worked for two years as a discovery chemist at a J&J subsidiary near Philadelphia, and earned his Ph.D. in heterocyclic and medicinal chemistry from the University of Florida.  He held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in natural product synthesis at Wesleyan University under the [...]

Dr. Hui Cai
Dr. Hui Cai is President & CEO of Inflexion BioPartners, a professional consultancy that offers management and consulting services to help optimizing key resources along the biotech and pharmaceutical R&D value chain. Dr. Cai has a broad portfolio of expertise and solid track record in strategic initiatives aimed at maximizing organizational efficiency and [...]

William K. Tolley
Bill is a research scientist at Seacoast Science, Inc., in Carlsbad. He is responsible for the design of analytical instruments employing Seacoast’s novel chemiselective sensors. He is experienced in inorganic polymers, supercritical fluid chemistry, and electrochemistry.  He currently serves on the Executive Board as Secretary and served one term as Member-at-Large. He has [...]

Tom is currently a Councilor in the San Diego Section and has served for 6 years in that capacity. Previously, he was Chair in 1999 and was an Alternate Councilor (2000-3).

Dr. David M. Wallace
 
Dr. Wallace is an experienced medicinal chemist with over 17 years experience in pharmaceutical industry.  He currently consults for early and clinical stage biotech companies, providing synthetic and medicinal chemistry expertise in the area of small molecule drug discovery. Current and past companies include Mpex Pharmaceuticals, Allylix and Mirable. Dr. Wallace is [...]

Julann Miller
Julann is an Executive Account Representative for San Diego with Waters Corporation. She has been in field sales with Waters for the past 18 years. In January of 2007, Julann began serving the San Diego Section of the American Chemical Society. She has provided seminars for the Young Chemist Society and served [...]

Stephen Gwaltney, PhD
Stephen began his work in synthetic organic chemistry as an undergraduate at Indiana University under the direction of Ted Widlanski.  After graduation, Stephen began working in the labs of Ken Shea at the University of California, Irvine and obtained his PhD in 1996.  His dissertation focused on the development of methodology for the [...]

Desiree Grubisha, PhD
Desiree received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. She conducted postdoctoral research at Iowa State University and the DOE Ames Laboratory developing immunoassays with a surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection platform in the Microanalytical Instrumentation Center. She is currently teaching Chemistry at Cal State San Marcos. [...]

Renate Valois retired from the University of San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry after 37 years in August 2007. She has been editor for The San Diego Chemist for 12 years.