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Arthur Vailas
Vice Chancellor for Research and Intellectual Property
Management, University of Houston System
Vice President for Research, University of Houston

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Biography

Dr. Arthur C. Vailas, Vice Chancellor for Research and Intellectual Property Management for the University of Houston System and Vice President for Research for University of Houston, joined UH in 1995 as Vice President for Research and Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, and Professor and Distinguished Chair in Biology and Biochemistry. In 1998, with the administrative consolidation of the UH System and University of Houston, Chancellor/President Arthur K. Smith appointed Dr. Vailas Vice Chancellor for Research and Intellectual Property Management for the UH System in addition to his UH responsibilities.

Prior to joining UH, Dr. Vailas was Associate Dean for Research and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served in a number of other capacities at that university, including: Professor of Surgery, Division of Orthopedic Surgery in the College of Medicine; Professor, Department of Poultry Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and Professor and Director, Biodynamics Laboratory. He also was both Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Orthopedics and Biochemistry at the University of Iowa.

The author of numerous scientific articles and publications, Dr. Vailas was awarded the International Scholars Award by the University of Houston. He received the Outstanding Science Achievement Awards from NASA for COSMOS #2229, U.S.-Russian Space Program, and for the U.S.-Russian Life Sciences Mission COSMOS #2044. Elected to the NASA Life Sciences Advisory Subcommittee, he served as study section chairman for the American Institute for the Biological Sciences on Space Biology.

Dr. Vailas was an invited member and session chairman for the Gordon Research Conference on Microgravity Biology; a Committee Chairman of the Musculoskeletal Working Group for the Johnson Space Center Extended Duration Orbiter and Exercise Counter Measure Program; an elected member of the National Research Council by the National Academy of Sciences Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems; and a Soviet Life Science Delegate, Scientific Exchange for Cosmos 1887 and 2044, NASA. He was named Distinguished Scientist by California State University; and received a Faculty Academic Career Development Award from UCLA. Dr. Vailas also was a recipient of the NIH National Research Service Award while at the University of Iowa, Orthopaedics; and the NIH Institutional Research Award, also while at the University of Iowa. Most recently, Dr. Vailas was appointed as the University of Houston’s institutional trustee to the SURA (Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc.) Board, Texas Council on Environmental Technology Development, Member of the Executive Board on the Southeast Biotechnology Research Park Consortium.

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