Dr. Glassy graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1974 with a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry. He then attended University of California, Riverside and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1978. He did his post-doctoral studies in molecular immunology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. Dr. Glassy joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine and Cancer Center at UCSD in 1980 and is currently in the Translational Neuro-Oncology Laboratory at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center. In addition to UCSD, Dr. Glassy has held several upper management positions in commercial biotechnology. Currently, he is the Founder and Chairman of Nascent Biotech, Inc. He has prepared and directed several FDA approved clinical trials involving human monoclonal antibodies to cancer. Dr. Glassy has over 175 publications in the scientific and medical literature, is the inventor of several issued patents in the human antibody field, is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, HUMAN ANTIBODIES, and the Program Chairman of the meeting series, “The International Conference on Human Antibodies and Hybridomas”. Glassy is the inventor of pritumumab, the first human antibody used to treat a cancer patient and is the recipient of the 2003 Arthur Furst Award (citation: “Outstanding research advancing science for the betterment of humanity”). He is also the author of the books, “The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema”, “Movie Monsters in Scale”, and “Biology Run Amok!”.
Mark Glassy
