About Professor Sikela

Biographical Sketch

• Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2010-present
• William Evans Visiting Professor Fellow, University of Otago at Christchurch, New Zealand, 2009-2010
• PAC for Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, 2008-13
• Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Department of Pharmacology, 2006
• Professor, Department of Pharmacology, 2004 - present
• Member, Advisory Committee, Case Western Reserve University's NIH Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law, 2004-09
• Director of the University of Colorado Minority Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2002-10
• Faculty Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, 2002-present
• Co-Founder, Evolutionary Genomics, 2001-04
• Scientific Advisory Board, Genomic Solutions, 2001-03
• Scientific Advisory Board, Evolutionary Genomics, 2001-04
• National Human Genome Research Institute, Senior Fellow, ELSI Program 1999-2000
• Department of Pharmacology Teacher of the Year Award 1997-98
• Second-year Medical Student Special Teaching Award, 1997-98
• Co-Founder, GenoPlex, 1997-2001
• Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee, University of Iowa NIH Human Genome Center, 1993-96
• Eppley Institute Visiting Professor of Oncology, University of Nebraska School of Medicine, 1996
• Founder, Genome Technologies, 1994-95
• Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1994-2004
• Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine. 1987-1994
• Co-Director, Molecular Biology Laboratory, VA Neurosciences and Schizophrenia Center, 1989-1995.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1983-1987
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tumor Biology Training Grant, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, 1983
• National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology Training Grant, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 1977-81
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Biology, Department of Biology, Cleveland State University, 1976-77

Graduate Training Faculty Memberships

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, 2010-present
• Department of Pharmacology, 1987-present
• Human Medical Genetics Program, 1996-present
• Neuroscience Program, 1989-present
• Molecular Biology Program, 1989-1999
• Medical Scientist Training Program, 1988-present
• Center for Computational Biology, 2001-present
• Faculty fellow, Institute for Behavioral genetics, 2002-present

Societies

• ​​Society for Neuroscience, 1986-present
  
• American Society of Human Genetics, 1988-present
  
• International Society for Computational Biology, 2002-present
  
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1988-2008
  
• American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1990-2010
  
• Human Genome Organization (HUGO), 1991-2001
  
• Research Society on Alcoholism, 1993-2010
  
• National Center for Science Education 1997-2007