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Clifton A. Baile
Professor of Animal and Dairy
Science and Foods and Nutrition
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Agricultural Biotechnology
Lamar
Dodd Award 2002
Clifton A. Baile, a Professor in the Departments of Animal and Dairy Science
and Foods and Nutrition and the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of
Agricultural Biotechnology, is a productive scientist who understands how to
transfer research findings to industry. His many accomplishments demonstrate
his ability to coordinate and advise University faculty on research findings
that have economically viable applications. His leadership has helped advance
biotechnology and its economic potential for Georgia.
Dr. Baile has helped recruit high-caliber faculty to UGA and has improved
UGA biotechnology research facilities through collaborations and successful
grant writing. Since coming to UGA in 1995, he has helped procure a $38 million
investment for new facilities, laboratories, and equipment. Dr. Baile has served
in management roles in several Athens-area biotechnology start-up companies
including Abeome, Inc., Aureozyme, Inc., AviGenics, Inc., Oncose, Inc. and
ProLinia, Inc. These companies, which have raised more than $75 million during
the past four years, encompass a range of technologies from animal cloning
and human cell therapies to the development of cancer diagnostics and the mass
production of monoclonal antibodies.
Key to Dr. Baile’s success in promoting biotechnology and its economic potential
is his 35 years in academia and industry. His research at universities such
as Harvard, Penn State and UGA has resulted in more than 275 scientific papers
on such topics as the control of feed intake and the regulation of energy balance,
and the regulation of animal growth and lactation. During his tenure at the
Monsanto Company, he led his department in the discovery of a biotechnology-based
process to produce a dairy cattle somatotropin and developed its delivery formulations,
manufacturing systems, and marketing programs. Somatotropin sales now yield
more than $400 million annually. Dr. Baile’s “success in bringing university
research to industry has been so great that it has been cited in Nature … as
a model for others to emulate,” wrote C. Michael Cassidy, president of the
Georgia Research Alliance.
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