Luis Glaser Professor of Biology and Special Assistant to the President, University of Miami Miami, Florida

As a native of Vienna, Austria, Dr. Luis Glaser and his family fled the Holocaust when he was only six and settled in Mexico where he grew up. Dr. Glaser graduated with honors from the University of Toronto in 1953 with an undergraduate degree. He then came to the United States to Washington University in St. Louis to pursue a doctorate, which he received in 1956. After 30 years on the faculty of Washington University and for the last 10 years as Chairman of the Department of Biology and Chemistry and Director of the Division of Biology and Biomedical Science, he joined the University of Miami as Executive Vice President and Provost in 1986.

Dr. Glaser retired from that position in July of 2005 and is currently a Professor of Biology and Special Assistant to the President. Dr. Glaser is the author of over 180 scientific articles in major scientific journals. His memberships in societies include Sigma Xi, American Society of Biological Chemists, American Chemical Society of Microbiology, American Society for Cell Biology, American Society for Neuroscience, and Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honor society, and has been editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of Cell Biology.