Second of three vice chancellor for research finalists to visit campus
LAWRENCE — The second of three candidates for the position of vice chancellor for research at the University of Kansas will visit campus next week.
Mary J.C. Hendrix, president and scientific director at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, will be on campus Dec. 15-17. She will give a public presentation on “Strategies for Raising Research Stature during an Era of Declining Funding” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Lied Center Pavilion.
Candidate Rich Hichwa, senior associate vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa, visited KU earlier this week. The third and final candidate be announced next week and will give a presentation at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at the Lied Center Pavilion.
Additional information and CVs of all three candidates are available here. All presentations will be recorded on video and posted online after the last presentation is complete.
The vice chancellor for research at KU oversees 10 research centers, two state surveys, two affiliated centers and a number of core research laboratories. The position also serves as president of the KU Center for Research Inc. — the nonprofit research foundation responsible for the administration of research grants and other external awards — and shares overall responsibility for KU Innovation and Collaboration, KU’s bicampus technology commercialization office. Mary Lee Hummert has been serving as KU’s interim vice chancellor since March 2014.
Mary J.C. Hendrix
Hendrix currently serves as president and scientific director, the Children's Research Fund Professor, and the William G. Swartchild Jr. Distinguished Research Professor for Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
She is a member of many editorial boards, including Developmental Dynamics, Cancer Biology and Therapy, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Cancer Research, the American Journal of Pathology and Cancer Microenvironment. She is a past president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, the largest coalition of biomedical research societies in the United States.
Hendrix serves on the board of directors for the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, Research!America, the Chicago Council on Science & Technology and the National Disease Research Interchange. She served on the Council of Councils of the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Advisors, the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH, and is a past president of the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology Chairpersons. She has more than 250 publications in biomedical research.
For a full biography, visit her profile page.