G. W. A. Milne

Professional Experience

1960 - 1962 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1962 - 1965 Visiting Fellow and Visiting Associate,

                   Laboratory of Chemistry, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases,

                   National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1965 - 1981 Research Chemist,

                   National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,

                   National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1967 - 1981  Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

1981 - 1988 Chief Information Technology Branch,

      Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment,

      National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD

1988 - 1999 Research Chemist, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry,

      Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment,

      National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

1989 - 2004 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences,

      American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.

1998 -         Chemistry Editor, Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT

Activities

Editorial Board, Chemico-Biological Interactions (1969-1974)

Editorial Board, Organic Mass Spectrometry (1973-1981)

Editorial Board, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (1989- )

National Judge, Westinghouse Science Talent Search (1965-1976)

Consultant, National Bureau of Standards (1976-present)

External Ph.D. examiner at George Washington, Georgetown and American

Universities in Washington and also at the University of New South Wales, Australia,

Organizer/Chairman at national meetings, particularly of the American Chemical Society

and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Chairman of the Washington Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (1969-1971)

Reviewer of grant applications for NIH and NSF as well as similar organizations in Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia (1967-present)

Referee of papers and reviewer of books for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal

of Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Mass Spectrometry and Biomedical Mass

Spectrometry (1965-present)

NHLBI representative, NIH Advisory Committee on Computer Usage (1979-1987)

NCI representative, NIH Advisory Committee on Computer Usage (1981-date)

President, NHLBI Assembly of Scientists (1980-1981).

President, NIH Interassembly Council of Assemblies of Scientists (1981-1983)

Chairman, Mass Spectrometry Subcommittee, Joint Committee of Atomic and Molecular Physical Data (1979-1986)

NIH Representative, Interagency Steering Committee for the NIH-EPA Chemical Information System.

Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society: Chairman-elect (1989), Chairman (1990), Councillor (1992-)

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Sciences (1989-)

Associate Editor, Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds (CRC Press) (1992-)

 

Professional Societies

American Chemical Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society for Mass Spectrometry

 

Honors and Awards

Wellcome Foundation Travel Grant (1960)

National Academy of Sciences Travel Grants for working visits to the USSR (1968 and 1970)

Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999)

Winner of the 1999 Skolnik award of the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society.

 

Research Interests

Chemistry of steroids, terpenes, alkaloids, amino acids, nucleosides, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to studies in these fields with particular emphasis on the biological function of various members of these classes. Applications of digital computing to problems in the biological sciences. Typical applications include laboratory automation, robotics, quality control and data management and analysis, management of large databases, statistical analysis, curve fitting and general graphical handling of data. Other research goals are the integration of video and audio in a computing environment, intra- and inter-network database management, and the application of modern methodologies to computationally explosive problems, such as DNA/RNA chain sequence analysis.