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National Science Board Commission on 21st Century Education in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Members
Dr. James M. Gentile
President, Research Corporation, Tucson, AZ
James Gentile is President of Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of
science located in Tucson, AZ. Prior to this position, Dr. Gentile was Kenneth G. Herrick Professor
of Biology at Hope College and served as Dean of the Natural Sciences at Hope for 12 years. He
currently is a member of the Advisory Board for the College of Science at the University of Arizona
and holds an Adjunct Professorship at that institution in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics.
Dr. Gentile received his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's University in Minnesota and his
Ph.D. from Illinois State University. He spent two years in postdoctoral studies in the Department
of Human Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Gentile has had the opportunity to work with over 100 undergraduate students in
collaborative research in his laboratory and has authored more than 125 research articles, book
chapters, book reviews, and special reports in areas of scientific research and higher education.
His research focuses on the connection between inflammation and cancer.
Among his many awards, Dr. Gentile has received the Alexander Hollaender Research Excellence
Award from the Environmental Mutagen Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, and has
been named a National Academies Education Mentor in the life sciences. He is a former member of
the State of Michigan Hazardous Waste Site Review Board and has served on the Science Advisory Board
for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as on advisory boards for the National
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the CDC and the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) at the National Institutes of Health. He has served on the
Committee on Undergraduate Science Education for the National Research Council (NRC) and is
currently a member of the NRC Life Science Board, where he had a leadership role in the preparation
of the recent publication, Biology 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research
Biologists.
In addition, Dr. Gentile is a past president of the Environmental Mutagen Society, the current
president of the International Association of Environmental Mutagen Societies, and a past
editor-in-chief for the international journal, Mutation Research. He is a former member of
the Board of Governors for the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, a past council
member for the Council on Undergraduate Research, and has served on the Executive Committee for
Project Kaleidoscope. He is currently on the advisory board for the State of Maine Biomedical
Research Initiative and is co-chairperson of the National Academies Summer Institutes for Education
in Biology.
Dr. Gentile has been a consultant to several public and private foundations and corporations.
He has been program director for grants from the public sector (FIPSE, NIH, NIOSH, NSF, USEPA, WHO)
and the private sector (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Beckman Foundation, the Kresge
Foundation, the Research Corporation, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the W.M. Keck Foundation)
to support his own research as well as education and research at Hope College.
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