Dr. Frank M. Sulzman received a B.S. in Biology from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972 where he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow. He was an NIH post-doctoral fellow in the Biological Laboratories at Harvard University from 1972 to 1974 and then a National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scientist at Moscow State University from 1974 to 1975. From 1975 to 1979 he was an Instructor in Physiology in the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. In 1979 Dr. Sulzman joined the Department of Biological Sciences of the State University of New York at Binghamton as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor in 1982 and Director of the graduate program in 1983. His research during this time involved basic and applied studies on circadian rhythms, and various aspects of space physiology; this work was supported by NIH, NASA and other agencies. Dr. Sulzman joined NASA Headquarters in 1985 as Manager of the Biomedical Research Program and was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1987. He served in a number of leadership positions at NASA Headquarters before retiring from NASA in 2000. Subsequently, from 2003 to 2009 Dr. Sulzman served as an IPA in the NASA Space Radiation Program while stationed at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, overseeing operations of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory. He is currently a USRA Senior Fellow and the NASA Space Radiation Project Executive. Dr. Sulzman married Patricia Hojnacki Sulzman in 1969 and they reside in Longboat Key, Florida.
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September 29, 2009