| Ben de Lumen, Ph. D. El Cerrito, California First and only tenured professor at the University of California at Berkeley |
Dr. Ben de Lumen was born in Taytay, Rizal, Philippines. He did
his undergraduate at the University of the Philippines at Los
Banos, a MS degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry /Biochemistry at the
University of California, Davis, CA. After working for 5 years in the
food industry in the U.S., he joined the faculty at the Dept. of
Nutritional Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in
1978. He received tenure as a faculty member in 1982.
Ben is the first and so far the only tenured professor at the
University of California at Berkeley. He is proud of it, but also
disappointed that there are no many more Filipino-Americans
because of the fact that Filipinos make up the largest percentage
of Asians in California.
He has been active in the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter of the
Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) that advises the
Philippine government, scientists and technologists in the
Philippines. He has been the Team Leader in the Biotechnology
and Agriculture Group.
He is an active member, past President and former member of
his undergraduate at the University of the Philippines at Los
Banos, a MS degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry /Biochemistry at the
University of California, Davis, CA. After working for 5 years in the
food industry in the U.S., he joined the faculty at the Dept. of
Nutritional Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in
1978. He received tenure as a faculty member in 1982.
Ben is the first and so far the only tenured professor at the
University of California at Berkeley. He is proud of it, but also
disappointed that there are no many more Filipino-Americans
because of the fact that Filipinos make up the largest percentage
of Asians in California.
He has been active in the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter of the
Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) that advises the
Philippine government, scientists and technologists in the
Philippines. He has been the Team Leader in the Biotechnology
and Agriculture Group.
He is an active member, past President and former member of
the Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) that advises the Philippine government, scientists
and technologists in the Philippines. He has been the Team Leader in the Biotechnology and Agriculture
Group.
Engineering (PAASE), an association of university, government and industrial Filipino scientists in the US,
Canada and the Philippines.
He is a co-founder and currently Board Chairman of FilGen BioSciences, Inc./Lunasian Labs, LLC, a start-up
biotech company formed to commercialize Lunasian technology discovered in his laboratory and covered by
patents owned by the UC Berkeley.
He recently spent 6 months (January – July 2004) as a recipient of the Sir Fredericks McMaster Fellowship in
Australia. The fellowship is award outstanding overseas scientists visiting Australia. He conducted research
on bioengineering of seeds improved nutritional quality and gave seminars in several institutions in Australia
on “Lunasin, A Novel Cancer Preventive Seed Peptide with a Unique Epigenetic Mechanism.”
He has hosted a number of visiting scientists, faculty members and graduate students from the Philippines
through the years in his laboratory at UC Berkeley and holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the
University of the Philippines at Los Banos. In 1995, he was awarded an Honorary Membership in the
Philippine Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “in recognition of his continued significant
contributions to the strengthening of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Philippines- through seminars
and lectures, training of graduate and post-graduate students in the Philippines and at the University of
California at Berkeley, collaborative research with Filipino scientists and active involvement in the Science and
Technology Advisory Council of San Francisco.”#
and technologists in the Philippines. He has been the Team Leader in the Biotechnology and Agriculture
Group.
Engineering (PAASE), an association of university, government and industrial Filipino scientists in the US,
Canada and the Philippines.
He is a co-founder and currently Board Chairman of FilGen BioSciences, Inc./Lunasian Labs, LLC, a start-up
biotech company formed to commercialize Lunasian technology discovered in his laboratory and covered by
patents owned by the UC Berkeley.
He recently spent 6 months (January – July 2004) as a recipient of the Sir Fredericks McMaster Fellowship in
Australia. The fellowship is award outstanding overseas scientists visiting Australia. He conducted research
on bioengineering of seeds improved nutritional quality and gave seminars in several institutions in Australia
on “Lunasin, A Novel Cancer Preventive Seed Peptide with a Unique Epigenetic Mechanism.”
He has hosted a number of visiting scientists, faculty members and graduate students from the Philippines
through the years in his laboratory at UC Berkeley and holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the
University of the Philippines at Los Banos. In 1995, he was awarded an Honorary Membership in the
Philippine Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “in recognition of his continued significant
contributions to the strengthening of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Philippines- through seminars
and lectures, training of graduate and post-graduate students in the Philippines and at the University of
California at Berkeley, collaborative research with Filipino scientists and active involvement in the Science and
Technology Advisory Council of San Francisco.”#
Washington D.C. Since 1987
Washington D.C. Since 1987
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