Senior Director, Science and Higher Education
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Ed develops and manages the Foundation's grantmaking strategies and initiatives in the fields of scientific research and higher education.

Prior to coming to the Foundation, Ed served as Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a co- founder of Chiron Corporation. For 10 years prior to founding Chiron, Ed was a faculty member of the Biochemistry Department of U.C. Berkeley. He has received numerous awards, including the first Distinguished Faculty Award in the Life Sciences from the department of Molecular and Cell Biology at U.C. Berkeley, the Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented by Ernst & Young and Inc. Magazine; and the Harvard Business School Northern California Alumni Chapter award as Entrepreneur of the Year. Ed earned his A.B. in biology from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Washington. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego.

To keep equally busy outside his daily work schedule, Ed has served as chairman of the California Health Care Institute, of the Chabot Space & Science Center, and of the Bay Area Bioscience Center. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Bay Area Council, the Oakland Museum Foundation, the UC System Biotech Advisory Committee, Kaiser Permanente, and the Advisory board for the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UC Berkeley. He is also a member of the boards of Renovis, Inc., Zymogenetics, Inc., Eyetech Inc., and Chiron Corp. Ed is a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists, and has published more than 50 scientific articles and papers. He is married with two grown children and lives with his wife in his hometown of Oakland, California.