Cloning Scientist to speak at HU Founder's Day

Hampton, VA - Hampton University will welcome Dr. Richard Goldsby, a cutting-edge researcher in cloning technology, as the keynote speaker for the 112th Annual Founder¹s Day Ceremony on Jan. 30 at 11:30 a.m. in the Convocation Center.

Founder's Day activities also will include the commemorative wreath placing ceremony at the gravesite of the University's founder, Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, in the Hampton University Cemetery at 9:30 a.m.

Goldsby's speech entitled "Honoring the Past, Engineering the Future" and the wreath-placing ceremony are free and open to the public.

During the ceremony HU President William R. Harvey will present President's Citizenship awards to C. Michael Petters, president of Northrop Grumman Newport News; Madam Annie B. Daniels, owner of Madam Daniels¹ School of Beauty Culture in Newport News and Edwina Davis-Gary, CEO of the Peninsula Institute for Community Health.

Goldsby is the John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer and professor of biology at Amherst College and one of the four founders of Hematech, a biotechnology company that is a pioneer in the development and production of antibodies for therapeutic uses. Hematech, in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Division of the Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd., uses mammalian cloning technology to create cloned, transgenic cattle that have detectable levels of human antibodies in their blood streams. The company was created to address the need for human polyclonal antibodies for use in the therapy or prevention of infectious diseases and the treatment of immune deficiencies.

Goldsby received a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkley. At Amherst, Goldsby teaches ³The Biology of Catastrophe: Cancer and AIDS² and immunology. He is the author of many scientific papers and with Thomas Kindt and Barbara Osborne, the author of the 4th edition of Kuby Immunology (2000), a widely used textbook. Other works include Cells and Energy (1977) and Race and Races (1977), Thinking AIDS, with Mary Catherine Bateson (1989), and many scientific papers.