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Brady, Colin John (1930 - 2000)

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Biochemist
Born: 2 April 1930  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 4 July 2000.
Colin John Brady worked as a protein biochemist for the CSIRO in the Division of Food Research and Division of Horticulture, and was instrumental in the development and commercial release of genetically modified tomatoes in the United States and United Kingdom.

Colin was a meticulous worker and a perfectionist in his science. One of his great gifts was his ability to generate this urge, together with the enthusiasm to get it right, in all his colleagues. Jim Speirs, CSIRO, 2000.


Career Highlights

Chronology
1951Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1951 - 1960Technical, then Experimental Officer at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
1960 - 1962Australian Dairy Board Scholar at Aberdeen University, Scotland
1963 - 1965Experimental Officer at CSIRO in Melbourne
1965 - 1987Senior, then Principal Research Scientist at the Plant Physiology Unit of the CSIRO Division of Food Research in Sydney
1971Visiting Professor in the Department of Food Science at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1972Fulbright Scholar at Beltsville in Maryland, USA
1973Visiting Professor in the Botany Department of the University of Malaya
1982British Council Exchange Scholar and Underwood Lecturer at the ARC, UK
1984Postharvest Fellow at the University of California in Davis, USA
1986Visiting Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA
1988Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
1988 - 1993Principal, then Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Horticulture, and Officer in Charge - Program Manager of the Postharvest Laboratory in Sydney
1992Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen
1993 - 1995Research Fellow at the CSIRO Division of Horticulture
1995Visiting Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales

 

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