Gerald Pollack received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of Bioengineering, and also editor-in-chief of the journal WATER.

 

Pollack’s academic interests have ranged broadly, from biological motion and cell biology to the interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His 1990 book, Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion, won an “Excellence Award” from the Society for Technical Communication; his two more recent books, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life (2001) and The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor (2013), both won that Society’s “Distinguished Award.”

 

Pollack received an honorary doctorate in 2002 from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named an Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences as well as Academician and foreign member of the Srpska Academy.

 

He received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2002. In 2008, he was the faculty member chosen by the University of Washington faculty to receive the annual Faculty Lecturer Award the faculty’s highest distinction. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

He has recently received an NIH Director’s Transformative R01 Award. He was the 2012 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics. Most recently he received the World Academy of Neural Therapy’s “Scientific Excellence Award” and the Dinsdale Prize from the Society for Scientific Exploration.

 

Beginning more than a decade ago, Pollack has involved himself in the process of doing science. He began by organizing letter-writing campaigns to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to open the doors of those institutions to unconventional approaches. Out of these campaigns came the NSF “Frontiers in Biomedical Research” program, and an NIH workshop that eventually led to the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. A paper describing some of the proposals is available in a paper entitled: Revitalizing Science in a Risk-Averse Culture: Reflections on the Syndrome and Prescriptions for its Cure (Pollack, 2005).

 

More recently, Pollack served as an external advisor to the National Science Board (which governs NSF and reports to the US President) in their task force on transformative science. Recommendations of that body led to a heightened awareness of the need for transformative programs at NSF: the term “transformative” now runs deeply through the Foundation. Similarly with the NIH, Pollack was the main academic speaker at 2007 workshop on “Fostering Innovation” which was attended by top NIH officials and a panel of distinguished scientists. Pollack’s 40-minute talk offering various remedial solutions, some radical, can be found at videocast.nih.gov (starting at 1:17). Again, recommendations from this workshop have begun opening the NIH to dealing more seriously with transformative ideas. Pollack also served as member of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation’s Transformative Science Program, and then as chair.

 

With his unusually diverse scientific background and deep interest in restoring the scientific enterprise to the highly creative and productive endeavor it once was, Pollack’s energies are now focused on bringing the Institute for Venture Science into full realization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. James Ryder served for 38 years in a broad range of management and technical positions at the Lockheed Martin Corporation. During his career he held positions of Vice President, Director, Manager, Program Manager, Principal Investigator, and scientist/engineer in a range of aeronautics and space applications from aircraft (e.g. L1011, F22, Skunk Works), to rockets and missiles (e.g. space shuttle main engines, FBM, THAAD), to spacecraft (classified and unclassified defense systems and for NASA).

 

Ryder holds a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics, an MS in engineering mechanics, and a BS in theoretical and applied mechanics, all from the University of Illinois. His technical contributions and publications (>30 in open literature; numerous classified) have been in several areas: structural durability and damage-tolerance analysis; optical materials; development and analysis of materials; and sensor instrumentation. He has been an adjunct professor, has taught graduate courses and short courses, has served on numerous advisory panels, review boards, committees, and conference committees, and has served on organizations furthering the teaching of science and technology.

 

From May 2005 until his retirement in February 2011, Ryder served as Vice President of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Palo Alto, CA. As Vice President, he led the Advanced Technology Center for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

The ATC (now STAR) is the R&D organization of LMSSC devoted to providing technology discriminators to LMSSC and other LMC lines of business impacting the success of programs totaling more than $9B annually. His responsibilities encompassed representing LMSSC and LMC to a wide range of customers and overseeing research and development for the Space Systems Company, including remote sensing and space science, telecommunications and space based navigation, defensive systems and strategic-systems. The ATC research and development portfolio covers a diverse set of technologies including phenomenology and sensors, optics and electro-optics, telecommunications and photonics, guidance and navigation, modeling and simulation, materials and structures, thermal sciences, nanotechnology and space sciences. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Costanzo serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the International Science Foundation.

 

An experienced businessman, corporate executive and political consultant, Mr. Costanzo has advised and managed start-up and turnaround situations.  He has a keen interest in science and in guiding non-profit organizations.

 

Mr. Costanzo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from St. Bonaventure University and a Master of Arts in Education and Humanities from Kean University.

 

Mr. Costanzo has had a long and varied career in international business, has served with distinction in the US Army and served as a Senior Advisor on Presidential and Congressional campaigns.

 

 You can read more about Mr. Costanzo and his not-for-profit volunteer activities at www.FrankCostanzo.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenn Estrabillo is an author, speaker, international real estate investor, business and leadership trainer, transformational real estate mentor, and successful entrepreneur.

 

Having earned a degree in environmental-chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Glenn worked as an area process engineer with GE Canada while simultaneously growing a part-time real estate investment business. He eventually retired from his job at the age of 28, shifting his focus to leading elite training programs for a company dealing with global, personal, and professional development.

 

Glenn devotes a majority of his attention and energy into studying world history, global economics, and finance. At the time of the recession of the last decade, Glenn saw the need to help the families devastated by the housing crisis in the US. Combining his expertise in real estate with data from his studies, including analysis of demographics and growth trends, Glenn retired for the second time from leading training and development programs to begin investing full time in the US, providing affordable housing to these families.

 

As CEO of 1Plus12, Glenn works together with the co-founders to develop people into financially independent and free human beings. He does this by equipping them with the necessary skills and structures to produce, protect, and perpetuate wealth, while simultaneously eliminating barriers to their natural power, freedom and full self expression, so that they can achieve the life and future they truly desire. Having successfully invested in Canada, the US and globally, Glenn has moved himself through the “4 Critical Phases of Wealth” that he teaches others through 1Plus12 workshops and seminars world-wide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beverly Rubik received her Ph.D. in biophysics in 1979 at the University of California at Berkeley.  Her scientific areas of interest include consciousness studies; bioelectromagnetics; water, in regard to the living state; and the scientific basis of alternative and complementary medicine.  Rubik is especially known for her pioneering research on the biofield, the energy field associated with living organisms.  She has conducted exploratory research on persons such as qigong masters and Reiki practitioners remotely affecting physical and biological systems.  Rubik has measured the extremely low level light (biophotons) emitted by living organisms in relation to health and various states of consciousness.  She has also conducted studies on the effects of low-level electromagnetic fields on water and biological systems, and discovered an effect of cell phone radiation on human blood.   She has won several awards for research, including the Alyce and Elmer Green Award in 2009 by the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and the Integrity in Science Award by the Weston A. Price Foundation in 2015.

 

Rubik has published 90 scientific papers and two books, Life at the Edge of Science (1996), and The Interrelationship between Mind and Matter (1992), an edited volume.  She presently serves on the editorial boards of four peer-reviewed journals: Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine; Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine; Integrative Medicine Insights; and the Journal of Vortex Science and Technology.

 

Rubik was one of 18 U.S. Congressionally-appointed members of the Program Advisory Board to the Office of Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1992-1997, and chaired the NIH panels on bioelectromagnetic medicine and energy healing.  This was the precursory organization that launched the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, recently renamed the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.  Rubik co-authored two chapters in Alternative Medicine:  Expanding Medical Horizons, the first NIH comprehensive report on alternative medicine.

 

Rubik was director of the Center for Frontier Science at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1988-1995, where she founded a journal, Frontier Perspectives, and published scientific reports from scientists worldwide on theories and novel discoveries that challenged mainstream science.  

In 1996 Dr. Rubik founded the Institute for Frontier Science (IFS), a nonprofit laboratory, with support from Laurance S. Rockefeller, Sr., to continue her work and relocated it to California.  

In 2002, IFS was awarded an NIH center grant for frontier medicine research on biofield science in consortium with researchers at the University of Arizona. Bacterial cultures treated by biofield practitioners were found to grow faster than controls.  Current research at IFS is focused on detecting new elements of the human biofield.

 

Rubik is a professor at Energy Medicine University and adjunct professor at California Institute of Integral Studies as well as Saybrook University, where she mentors masters and doctoral students.  She is a popular speaker both nationally and internationally on topics in frontier science and medicine.