David T. Kingsbury, Ph.D.
Chief Program Officer
David Kingsbury is the chief program officer for the Science Program.
Before joining the Foundation, David was the chief executive of a biotechnology-consulting firm. He held executive posts at both Chiron Corporation and ValiGene, a French functional genomics company located in Paris. From 1992 to 1997, David was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has also served as a professor of Microbiology at George Washington University and professor of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley. David was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1988 and chaired two White House committees on biotechnology policy and regulation.
David has published nearly 100 research papers and reviews focused on the genetics and biochemistry of viruses and, more recently, computational biology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology and is the author of a review text in Medical Microbiology. David sits on several scientific advisory boards and is a board member of the Community of Science, a company he helped establish while at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
David earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.