N.C. Biotech Center communications executive is leaving
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Chris Brodie, vice president of corporate communications at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, is stepping down.
Brodie has worked at the Center since May 2008.
“After a stimulating and instructive year and a half, I am leaving the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to pursue other opportunities in scientific and strategic communications,” he said in an e-mail Monday.
Brodie, a scientist and editor, was an associate editor at American Scientist magazine before joining the Biotech Center. It is published by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, which is based in RTP.
Brodie earned a PhD in molecular, cellular, developmental biology and genetics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He also has conducted post-doctoral research in neurobiology at Duke. He received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health.
A graduate from the University of Georgia, Brodie is a Fulbright Scholar.
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