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About Douglas Leaman
As Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, Douglas Leaman serves as the chief administrative and academic officer. The Dean is responsible for maintaining and developing excellence in both graduate and undergraduate programs, providing leadership in faculty recruitment, directing strategic planning processes, promoting diversity, and allocation of the budget.
Douglas Leaman became Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at Wright State University October 1, 2016. He was chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Toledo. Leaman is an innate immunologist, specializing in biochemical and physiological aspects of host-virus interactions. He continues to run a successful research laboratory, which gives him insight into current trends in the life and physical sciences and an advantage in an administrative position that requires appropriate allocation of resources and teaching loads.
2020 - Present | Former Interim Provost, Wright State University - Main Campus | |
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2016 - Present | Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, Wright State University ‐ College of Science and Mathematics | |
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2010 - 2016 | Professor and Chair, University of Toledo ‐ Biological Sciences | |
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2009 - 2010 | Associate Professor and Chair, University of Toledo ‐ Biological Sciences | |
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2001 - 2010 | Associate Professor, University of Toledo ‐ Biological Sciences | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Cell Culture, Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Innate Immunity, Antivirals, Antiviral Immunity, and Interferon
Grants
2016 - Present | Reducing Impacts of Disease on Aquaculture Production in the Great Lakes Region |
USDA/ARS | |
$900,000 | |
2014 - 2017 | The Emerging VHS Fish Virus - Gene Diversity Related to Cellular Immune Response Regulation |
NSF - 1354806/1354684 | |
Role: PI | |
$720,000 | |
2014 - 2016 | Ohio Means Internships and Co-ops |
Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) | |
Role: CO-PI | |
$110,000 | |
2010 - 2016 | Yellow Perch Aquaculture and VHS Fish Virus |
USDA ARS | |
Role: CO-PI | |
$960,000 | |
2006 - 2013 | Impact of the IFN regulated proteins XAF1 |
NIAID - 5 R01AI068133-09 | |
Role: PI | |
$1,080,000 | |
2009 - 2012 | Role of ISG12 in cellular innate immune responses |
NIH - R21 1R21 AI063014-01 | |
Role: PI | |
$360,000 | |
2008 - 2008 | Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) |
NSF | |
Role: CO-PI | |
$207,000 | |
2006 - 2008 | Role of ISG12 in cellular innate immune responses |
AHA Ohio Valley - 0655387B | |
Role: PI | |
$132,000 | |
2001 - 2006 | Regulators of Interferon-induced apoptosis |
NCI - 1-R01-CA90837 | |
Role: PI | |
$900,000 | |
2003 - 2004 | 2-5A Antisense Targeting of Telomerase RNA |
NCI - 1-R41-CA92979 | |
Role: PI | |
$50,000 |
Honors and Awards
- OARDC Competitive Graduate Fellowship – 1987-1989
- F21C Competitive Graduate Fellowship – 1989-1990
- NIH Predoctoral Fellowship – 1990-1992
- Society for the Study of Reproduction New Investigator Award - 1992
- NIH Postdoctoral Grant (F32) – 1993-1996
- F. Merlin Bumpus Award – Finalist – 1995
- Outstanding Researcher Award – University of Toledo – 2007
- Undergraduate Research Mentor Excellence Award - 2011
May 1993 | Ph.D., University of Missouri ‐ Molecular Biology/Reproductive Physiology | |
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August 1989 | M.S., The Ohio State University ‐ Molecular Growth and Development/Animal Science | |
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March 1987 | B.S., The Ohio State University | |
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Contact Information
University Hall 256
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435-0001
937-775-3035
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