James Heath, PhD President and Professor at Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle Biography Dr. James R. Heath is President and Professor at Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Heath also has the position of Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA, and he has directed the National Cancer Institute-funded NSB Cancer Center since 2005. Formerly, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, and served as co-director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at UCLA until 2017. Heath received his PhD in 1988 from Rice University, where he was the principal graduate student involved in the discovery of C60 and the fullerenes. He was a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley before joining the research staff at IBM Watson Labs in 1991. He took a faculty position at UCLA in 1994, and moved to Caltech in 2003. He has received several awards and honors, including the Irving Weinstein Award from the American Association of Cancer Researchers, and the Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences. He was named one of the top seven innovators in the world by Forbes Magazine. Heath has founded or cofounded several companies, including PACT Pharma, Integrated Diagnostics, Indi Molecular, CTI Molecular Imaging (acquired by Siemens in 2005), Sofie Biosciences, Isoplexis, and NanoSys. Education & Training 1984: Baylor University, BSc 1988: Rice University, PhD Awards & Honors 2009: Forbes List of 7 Top Innovators in the World; AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Award and Lectureship 2006: Baylor Univ. Top 150 Alumni 2005: Spiers Medal Royal Society 2004: Arthur K. Doolittle Award 2002: Scientific American Top 50; ISI Highly Cited Researcher; Commendation from Governor Gray Davis 2001: Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences; LA Business Journal Technologist of the Year 2000: Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology; Jules Springer Prize for Applied Physics 1999: Fellow of the American Physical Society; Vanity Fair Magazine Hall of Fame 1997: Seaborg Award; Sloan Fellowship 1994: Packard Fellowship; NSF-NYI Award 1988: Miller Fellowship 1987: Rice Univ. Graduate Award for the Discovery of C60, the fullerenes, and La @ C60