Alexander G. Schauss

Dr. Schauss is Senior Director of Research and CEO at the scientific and regulatory consulting company, AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc., founded in 1978. At AIBMR, he has assisted over one thousand companies in nearly fifty countries to achieve commercial success for a wide range of inventions and consumer products. A research asssociate at the BIO5 Institute and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, he is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a certified food scientist, with over 250 publications, who has served on National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory committees, and United States Pharmacopeia expert panels. Alex is an active member of the Bioscience Leadership Council of Southern Arizona, the Bioindustry Organization of Southern Arizona (BIOSA), the Arizona Technology Council, and Tech Launch Arizona as a Commercialization Partner. He is also on the UA Gem and Mineral Museum Advisory Board, a Trustee of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Member of its Science and Conservation Council, and a volunteer with the U.S. National Park Service at Saguaro National Park, while maintaining active professional memberships with the American Chemical Society, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the Institute of Food Technologists, the American College of Toxicology, American College of Nutrition, and the America Society for Nutrition.