Richard Gayle

Current

Biotech Specialist at SpreadingScience
Board Member at Etubics Corporation
Founding Board Member at Sustainable Path Foundation

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Past

Vice President, Research at Etubics Corporation
Business development at WBBA
Senior Staff Scientist at Immunex

Postdoc at University of Colorado at Boulder

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Education

Rice University
California Institute of Technology

Connections

94 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

Richard Gayle’s Summary

I am also involved in a new venture, SpreadingScience, that harnesses my 15 years of experience utilizing Internet Technologies for scientific research. We work to increase the rate of diffusion of innovation and creativity in a research organization by leveraging Web 2.0 tools. We have a unique approach that harnesses the organization's own social network in order to help achieve success.

I still maintain contact with Etubics Corporation, where I was Vice-President, Research, designing new generation vaccines to fight infectious disease. The technology also has important uses for treating cancer and for gene therapy. I have also been a member of its board for over 5 years.

I worked sixteen years as a researcher at Immunex as it grew from less than 70 to several thousand employees. I created and adminstered the first intranet at Immunex, taking it from 18 pages to over 3000. Besides doing research at the bench, I also wrote and edited a weekly online newsletter with a column on items of scientific interest. I have been keenly interested in using computational tools to help disperse information generated by bioinformatics across a community.

I am on the board of the Sustainable Path Foundation, formerly the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation, started by several of us from Immunex and devoted to creating a sustainable future for human health and the environment in the Puget Sound area. Sustainable Path uses the social networking techniques we learned at Immunex to leverage our endowment, acting to fund early stage project that can have a larger impact on the entire bioregion.

Richard Gayle’s Specialties:

research, scientific management, project management, sustainability, collaboration, innovation, knowledge creation, Web 2.0, intranet design and management, grant making and management

Richard Gayle’s Experience

Biotech Specialist

SpreadingScience

(Biotechnology industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

SpreadingScience works to support cultures of innovation in research organzations. It uses so-called Web 2.0 approaches increae the flow of information and collaboration for researchers and organizations in academic, corporate and non-profit settings.

We have a unique approach to implementation that leverages the organization's social network to help achieve success and lower the rate of diffusion of ideas and innovation in the institution.

At the moment, we are focused on the biotechnology and non-profit areas but hope to expand into other sectors soon.
Board Member

Etubics Corporation

(Biotechnology industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

Etubics Corporation is a biotech company that possesses IP encompassing a novel vaccine delivery system. This technology, and the cell lines based on it, has the potential of providing rapid development of vaccines against a wide range of diseases and cancers. It will allow us to bring the development of vaccines into the 21st Century.
Founding Board Member

Sustainable Path Foundation

(Biotechnology industry)

July 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)

The Sustainable Path Foundation (formerly the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation) is a non-profit devoted to creating a sustainable future at the intersection of human health and the environment. Our work is informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking. With my direction,it has launched a recent initiative called Idea Club which meets monthly to discuss areas of topical concern to the Foundation and the surrounding community.
Vice President, Research

Etubics Corporation

(Biotechnology industry)

June 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 2 months)

For the four years I was in this position at Etubics I was responsible for all aspects of research. This included setting up the labs, planning protocols, overseeing research and presenting the science of Etubics to outside investors. I successfully applied for several funded grants from the NIH and other groups, as well as submitted patents.
Business development

WBBA

(Biotechnology industry)

August 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 3 months)

I was one of the few scientists on the Business Development committee. Besides working on InvestNW, the premier conference for biotechs and investors in Washington, I organized several events, including a Breakfast for Success roundtable on Infectious Disease.
Senior Staff Scientist

Immunex

(Public Company; IMNX; Biotechnology industry)

August 1986 — July 2002 (16 years)

Research involved many areas of immunology, structural biology, protein chemistry and computational biology. Chaired many projects and supervised several research associates. Acted as a liason between the wetware of the lab and the hardware of bioinformatics. I was instrumental in the creation of the research intranet, administering it for 23 years in addition to my research duties. The knowledge I gained here has informed my understanding of how information overload can be dealt with using online tools and social networks.
Postdoc

University of Colorado at Boulder

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1984 — August 1986 (2 years)

Following my defense, I moved to the lab of Dr. Marvin Caruthers at Boulder. There I worked on structure-function relationships of viral proteins. I also saw firsthand the difference between a chemistry lab and a biology one. The lab was developing the chemistry used in automated machines from ABI to make oligonucleotides. So, I am one of the few molecular biologists who has made small oligonucleotides by hand using sintered glass funnels.

Richard Gayle’s Education

Rice University

Ph. D. , Biochemistry , 1978 — 1984

I worked on bacterial plasmid replication and novel gene synthesis procedures in the lab of Dr. George Bennett.
California Institute of Technology

BS , Biochemistry , 1974 — 1978

I graduated with honors.

Activities and Societies:

Page House, Baseball

Additional Information

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Richard Gayle’s Interests:

Web 2.0 technologies, social media, knowledge creation, social networks, collaboration, innovation, sustainability, human health, environment, systems biology