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Today's Featured Biography
Bill McIntire
Education-
Hammond Elementary School, 2819 W 21st Place, Chicago (1954, Kindergarten)
Burbank Elementary School (1955-1961, 1st-6th grades)
Byrd Elementary School (1961-1963, 7th & 8th grades)
Reavis High School (1963-1967)
University of Illinois., Chicago (1967-1971) -- B.S., Chemistry (major) & Physics (minor)
University of California, Berkeley, CA (1971- 1976) -- M.S. & Candidate in Philosophy Degree, Biochemistry
University of California, Berkeley (1981-1983) -- Ph.D., Comparative Biochemistry
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One Patent
Approximately 100 publications in Scientific Journals
Approximately 20 grants over the past 25 years from:
National Institutes of Health
Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program
National Science Foundation
Department of Veterans Affairs
University of California, San Francisco
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Current work-
Principal Investigator
Veterans Administration Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
(1976-present)
Research Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California
San Francisco, CA
(1983-present)
Research Biochemist
Northern California Institute for Research & Education San Francisco, CA
(1983-present)
I am a research scientist investigating enzymes important in cancer, tissue damage, wound healing, tissue growth, tissue differentiation, heart disease, cell death, traumatic brain injury, etc. I have published about 100 paper in various scientific journals in my 40-year career as a scientist.
My lab is located at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco, which is perched on a cliff facing the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Pacific Ocean.
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Single, never married, no children.
Over the years, I've lived with several women (not at the same time) -- new-age California marriages.
Currently, unattached.
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Place I have lived-
Chicago --- 1949-1955
Burbank (South Stickney) --- 1955-1971
Berkeley, CA --- 1971-1975
Albany, CA --- 1975-1977
Oakland, CA --- 1977-1979
Hollywood, CA --- 1979-1980 (for 3 months)
Berkeley, CA --- 1980-1982
Oakland, CA --- 1982-1985
San Francisco, CA ---1985-1989
Bay Point, CA --- 1989-1998
Daly City CA --- 1998-present
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Place I have visited-
England --- 6 time
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Germany
Italy --- 4 times
The Netherlands --- 3 times
Australia
Canada (Calgary)
Spain
USA --- Illinois (all over), Indiana (The Dunes), Montana (Bozeman), New Mexico (Santa Fe, Los Alamos), Arizona (Tucson, Grand Canyon), Louisiana (New Orleans), Missouri, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming (Yellowstone), Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada (Reno, Los Vegas), Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Utah, Georgia (Atlanta, Athens), Massachusetts (Boston, Amherst), New Hampshire, etc.
California --- San Diego, San Jose, Los Angeles area, Pasadena, Monterey, Carmel, Santa Cruz, Big Sur, Watsonville, Yosemite, Sacramento, Napa & Sonoma Valleys, the Sierras, Mokelumne, Tuolumne, San Simeon, Death Valley, Palm Springs, Kings Canyon, Joshua Tree National Park, Truckee, Ventura, La Jolla, Santa Monica, Venice, Riverside, Westwood, Hollywood, Beverley Hills and many other places in California (not necessarily as nice as those just mentioned, e.g., Modesto, Stockton, Bakersfield).
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Interests-
Back packing; yoga; baseball; exploring the San Francisco Bay area and Northern Calif.; traveling; relaxing and reading in any of the numerous coffee shops in San Francisco; dining out with friends; classic rock and some modern rock, classical music, and some jazz; local Art Museums; San Francisco Symphony and Ballet; some modern dance and plays; collecting Rock Art --- No, not pictures of pet rocks or pebbles & stones, but Rock & Roll Art.
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Regrets-
Not buying a house in San Francisco in the 70's or 80's. A few hundred thousand $ then, would have given me a $1-2,000,000 gold mine today. Oh well. What a long strange trip it's been.
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