Dr. Basil A. Burke is currently Vice President of Alacritas BioPharma, a biopharmaceutical spin-off of Clinimetrics Research Associates. Prior to this Dr. Burke led Clinimetrics BioMedical, a newly formed drug partnering/acquisition Division of Clinimetrics Research Associates, as its Chief Operating Officer. He has been Scientific Advisor Board member or member of the Board of Directors for a few start up organizations. In 1998 Dr. Burke joined Clinimetrics Research Associates as the Vice President, Drug Discovery and Development. Dr. Burke has an international reputation in science and business. He has over twenty-five years experience performing scientific research and managing multi-disciplinary research teams for private industry and university environments. Before joining Clinimetrics, Dr. Burke was co-founder, CEO, and President of Research of Plant Research Technologies, Inc. a GLP contract research organization that for seven years provided research services to the Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical and Environmental arena. He spent six years on the Dean’s Advisory council for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He was also Professor of Chemistry at San Jose State University from 1997 to 1998. Dr. Burke also served as Director of Natural Products Chemistry and Cell Biology at the ARCO Plant Cell Research Institute (PCRI) in Dublin, California, a biotechnology R & D organization that integrated the disciplines of Molecular Biology, Genomics, Cell Culture, and Natural Products Chemistry, in the pursuit of new products and technologies from plant sources. As past President of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (NorCal SETAC), he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of NorCal SETAC and was a member of the editorial board of the journal “Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry”. Much earlier, Dr. Burke was a Senior Fulbright Fellow to Stanford University, California. Dr. Burke was also Professor of Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where several years earlier, he had received his B.Sc. (Honors) and Ph.D. in Chemistry, and was a faculty member for ten years. He did his post-doctoral research at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Burke received one of Jamaica’s highest honors “The Centennial Medal” for his personal contribution to, and achievement in, the area of Natural Sciences. He is the author of over 50 publications and inventor of several patents.
