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David Woods

David Randle Woods

Chair of SA Netherlands Research Programme


Born 18-07-1940 in KwaZulu-Natal

David Woods is Chair of SA Netherlands Research programme for Alternatives in Development in Durban and Amsterdam. He is an Advisor for the SA Malaria Initiative in Cape Town. He sits on the Editorial Board for Anaerobe Microbiology and is Referee for the Anaerobe Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, SA Journal of Science, New Zealand Journal of Diary Science and Technology, Gene Molecular and General Genetics, FEMS Microbiology Letters and Nature.


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Current Position(s)

Chair | SA Netherlands Research programme for Alternatives in Development
Durban/Amsterdam | 2005 - present

Previous Position(s)

Vice-Chancellor | Rhodes University
1996 - 2006

Academia, Education and Training

Executive Member | International Union of Microbiological Societies
1995 - 1999
Deputy Vice-Chancellor | University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa | 1988 - 1996

Academia, Education and Training

Director | Goodyear (USA) Research Group
United States of America | 1982 - 1988
Company-Director | COGENE Recombinant DNA Course for African scientists
Cape Town | 1982 - 1982
Director | Gencor Research Group
1982 - 1988
Director Research Groups | Sentrachem/National Chem Products Research Group
1978 - 1993

Educational history

Tertiary

Rhodes University

Completed 1962

Bachelor of Science

University of Oxford

Awarded in 2003

Honorary Doctor of Civil Law

University College, Oxford

Completed 1966

Doctor of Philosophy

Achievements

Awards

Honoris Causa | Oxford University

S2A3 Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Science

John F W Herschel Medal for Outstanding Research | Royal Society of SA

Gold Medallist Award | SA Society for Microbiology

Distinguished Teacher Award | University of Cape Town

Outstanding Researcher | Claude Harris Leon Foundation Award

Robert Forster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching | Baylor University 1992-93

Post-doctoral Fellowship | Royal Norwegian CSIR 1974-75

Activities

Memberships

Royal Society of SA (RsSA) 1987

Fellow

University of Cape Town 1985

Fellow

American Academy of Microbiology 1995

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FRD

Council Member, 1991 - 1998

CSIR

Council Member, 1988 - 1991

SA Medical Research Council

Council Member, 1978 - 1981

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