Sterling Gaylen Bradley

Background

Bradley, Sterling Gaylen was born on April 2, 1932 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Son of Benn and Lora (Brown) Bradley.

Education

Bachelor, Bachelor of Science, S.W. Missouri State College, 1950; Master of Science, Northwestern University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy (National Science Foundation fellow), Northwestern University, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy certificate medical mycology, Duke U., 1957.

Career

Graduate teaching assistant, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1950-1951; Abbott research assistant, Northwestern University, 1951-1952; instructor biology, Northwestern University, 1954; instructor department bacteriology and immunology, University of Minnesota, 1956-1957; assistant professor department bacteriology, University of Minnesota, 1957-1959; associate professor department microbiology, University of Minnesota, 1959-1963; graduate faculty genetics, University of Minnesota, 1961-1968; professor, University of Minnesota, 1963-1968; chairman genetics faculty group, University of Minnesota, 1964; department chairman microbiology, Virginia Commonwealth U., Richmond, 1968-1982; professor departments pharmacology and microbiology, Virginia Commonwealth U., 1979-1996; dean basic health science, Virginia Commonwealth U., 1982-1993; vice president academic affairs, U. Maryland. Biotech Institute, Baltimore, since 1996. Visiting worker in pharmacology Cambridge (England) University, 1978.

Member board science counselors National Institutes of Health, 1968-1972, chairman, 1970-1972. Member International Committee Bacteriol. Systematics, 1966-1974, Executive Board, 1970-1974.

Member United States Pharmacopeial Committee of Revision, 1980-1985. Coordinator Project 3 United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Joint Working Group on Microbiology, 1979-1982. Vice president Foundation Immunotoxicology, 1985-1991,president, 1991-1997.

Achievements

• Sterling Gaylen Bradley has been listed as a noteworthy Microbiology and pharmacology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Southeastern U. Research Association, Inc., 1990-1993. Board directors Science Museum Virginia Foundation, 1993-1998. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (life), Virginia Academy Science (life, past member of council, secretary 1976-1977).

Member American Association of University Professors, American Association Immunology, American Academy Microbiology, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Chemical Society, American Society Microbiology (past member of council, treasurer 1985-1991, ethics committee since 1997, centennial committee chair since 1994), Society Protozoologists, Society Industrial Microbiology (past president), American Institute Biological Science (past director, general chairman 41st Meeting, 1989-1990, board directors since 1996), Society Toxicology, United States Federation Culture Collections (president 1984-1986), International Union Microbiol. Socs. (treasurer since 1994), Mycological Society American (life), Torrey Botanical Club (life), New York Academy Sciences (life), Sigma Xi (life, president chapter 1975-1976, finance committee since 1991).

Connections

Married Lois Evelyn Lee, May 13, 1951. Children— Don, Evelyn, John, Phillip. Married Judith Bond, July 24, 1974.

1 son, Kevin.

Father:

Benn Bradley

Mother:

Lora (Brown) Bradley

Spouse:

Judith Bond

Spouse:

Lois Evelyn Lee