Nice faculty hire at FSU CoM

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After a national search, Richard Nowakowski, Ph.D., has accepted an offer to join the Florida State University as professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Medicine.</p>

<p>Dr. Nowakowski, whose leadership of the department will begin officially in March, is currently a professor of neuroscience and cell biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J., and the New Jersey Professor of Spinal Cord Research. He also directs the medical school’s postdoctoral career development program.</p>

<p>With a wealth of experience ranging from his own funded research projects and service on grant review panels to teaching and editing, Nowakowski joins the FSU College of Medicine at an opportune time.</p>

<p>“It is clear that the next decade will bring revolutionary changes in the structure of medical schools, the economy and also science,” he said. “These changes will be layered on top of the major scientific revolution of the past decade, specifically the sequencing of genomes that has quite literally changed the world of biology.”</p>

<p>Nowakowski, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, earned a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University. He completed his postgraduate education at Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

See: [Richard</a> Nowakowski to join FSU College of Medicine as Chair of Department of Biomedical Sciences](<a href=“http://med.fsu.edu/news/2009/bms.asp]Richard”>http://med.fsu.edu/news/2009/bms.asp)</p>