Thomas J. Goodwin, M.A.
Tom Goodwin prepares cell experiments for spaceflight

EDUCATION AND DEGREES:

University of Houston, Clear Lake, Texas, M.A. in Neuroscience, 1983

St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, B.A., 1974

EXPERIENCE:

Adjunct Instructor in Physiology, Tulane University Medical Center, 1996-present

NASA Biotechnology Flight Definition Technical Monitor, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, 1993-present

Biotechnology Laboratories Manager, Biomedical Research Section, KRUG Life Sciences Division, 1991-1993

Research Cell Biologist, Biomedical Research Section, KRUG Life Sciences Division, 1987-1991

Research Associate and Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, 1979-1987

Assistant Research Scientist, Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, San Antonio, Texas, 1973-1979

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society for Cell Biology

International Federation for the Advancement of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

National Tissue Culture Association

Sigma XI The Scientific Research Society

AWARDS AND HONORS:

Melbourne W. Boynton Award, awarded by the American Astronautical Society for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Aspects of Spaceflight, 1988

Space Act Award, 1993

NASA Johnson Space Center Inventor of the Year; Three-Dimensional Co-Culture Process (U.S. Patent #5,153,132), 1993

Two (2) NASA Group Achievement Awards, 1989 and 1993

Two (2) NASA/Johnson Space Center GEM Awards, 1993 and 1994

Two (2) NASA Performance Awards, 1994 and 1996

Eighteen (18) NASA Certificates of Recognition, from 1990 to 1996