Experience

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  Jim Colyn & Associates Quality Consultants

  • owner

    • 2005 - Present

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  American Association of Tissue Banks

  • Consultant/ Inspector

    • Feb 2000 - Feb 2013

    Inspect member tissue banks for compliance to performance and documentation standards of the organization

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  American Type Culture Collection

  • Director

    • Jun 1980 - May 1993

    Director (CEO) of world's premier repository of microbiological and cellular genetic resources. Represents collections of prototype culture/samples that are international reference standards for academia and industry. Also houses voucher specimens of patented biological materials in compliance with the international treaty of thr World Intellectual Property Organization

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  Litton Bionetics

  • Frederick, Maryland

  • Vice President and General Manager Frederick Operations Division

    • Dec 1971 - Sep 1980
    • Frederick, Maryland

    Served as Proposal Manager for a contract with the Natinal Cancer Inst. to renovate, staff and manage the conversion of the laboratories of Ft. Detrick, MD from biological defense to a state-of-the-art cancer research facility. After winning the competition was responsible for conversion of 850,000 sq ft. of labs., hiring scientific and technical staff, program development with NCI senior scientists and resident NCI project staff.

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  Union Carbide Corp

  • New York City & Tarrytown NY

  • Manager Biological Sciences, Corporate Development Dept

    • Oct 1967 - Dec 1971
    • New York City & Tarrytown NY

    Sought or found projects for development of new businesses for the corp. A successful clinical chemistry device and associated reagents, Centrifichem, earned 2 ISO 100 awards. It was also distributed in Europe by Hoffman LaRoche and in Asia by Nagase of Japan.

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  National Cancer Institutes (NCI)

  • Bethesda MD

  • Chief, Viral Carcinogenesis Branch

    • Oct 1960 - Oct 1967
    • Bethesda MD

    Hired to develop a resource program in cell culture banking and human tissue procurement for cancer research in Virology Research Resources Branch. Worked with leading scientists to collect, identify and standardize cell cultures.Developed sources for normal and cancer tissue specimens. Later assumed Branch Chief responsibilities and as research field expanded managed programs for testing and monitoring and new animal research models. Viral ultrcentrifuges, human diploid cells, and a variety of research reagents contracts were developed and supported by this activity.

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  U.S.Navy Tissue Bank

  • Bethesda MD

  • Head, Tissue Culture Laboratory

    • Oct 1958 - Oct 1960
    • Bethesda MD

    Established a quality control resouce for evaluating viability/suitability of tissues and cells from human donors for subsequent use in transplantation. Studied viability of tissue components post mortem, established cell lines from human sources, and participated in the harvesting, storing and replacing human bone marrow preparations into human patients. Cultured human ovarian tissue and provided material for transplantation to a NIH/Navy experiment to restore endocrine function to a ovo-hysterectomized patient. Evaluated claims that a hypothetical "burn toxin" evoked protective antibodies in recovered third degree burn survivors for BuMed of the Navy.

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  U.S.Public Health Service, Taft Engineering Center

  • Cincinnati, OH

  • Virologist, Microbiology Department

    • Jun 1954 - Sep 1958
    • Cincinnati, OH

    As a guest scientist doing PhD research on isolating a hepatitis virus, was hired in the water evaluation program to do research on the detection and removal of viruses from drinking water and sewage. Was involved in studies of the transmission of viruses in a boy's summer camp, disinfection of Type 3 adenovirus in swimming pools. Developed a procedure for concentrating viruses from large water samples and utilized sheeted monkey kidney cells for quantitative plaque counts of viruses. Collaborated with Albert Sabin to quantitate polio viruses in stool specimens from volunteer live vaccine recipients. Persued research on hepatitis using cell culture techniques.