David Sadava is the Pritzker Foundation Professor of Biology at the Claremont Colleges. Born in Canada, he received his undergraduate education at Carleton University in Ottawa. In addition to studies of biology and chemistry, he worked in science policy in the Prime Minister’s Office and as a parliamentary assistant to the Government House Leader. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he received his Ph.D. in molecular biology. Following postdoctoral work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he joined the faculty of the Claremont Colleges, where he teaches courses in molecular biology and biotechnology. Currently, he is involved in research on cancer chemotherapy on human small-cell lung cancer. This disease has a dismal prognosis at diagnosis, because the tumor becomes resistant to chemotherapy. Dr. Sadava is attempting to understand this resistance and devise new ways to make this tumor treatable. The author of over 60 peer-reviewed research articles, Dr. Sadava has long had a commitment to disseminating science to a broad audience. In addition to giving many talks to community groups, he is a co-author of “Life: The Science of Biology”, a leading text used at many of America’s major universities. He co-authored several widely read books on agriculture and the world food problem, including “Plants, Genes and Agriculture”, and the recent, “Plants, Genes and Crop Biotechnology”. In addition to his professorship at Claremont, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado and Caltech, and is a scientist in oncology at the City of Hope Cancer Center.