Michael D. Anderson, Ph.D.
Mike Anderson is President and C.E.O.
of the Presbyterian Health Foundation in Oklahoma City. PHF’s
mission is to support medical research, and commercialization
of new therapeutics and innovative diagnostics that save
and enhance human life.
He was Senior Minister
at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City for
nearly 25 years. (A
small group of persons from Westminster were instrumental
in the origin of PHF.) Prior to coming to Oklahoma he was Managing
Director of Interpretation and Stewardship of the worldwide
mission of the United Presbyterian Church, headquartered
in New York City.
Mike graduated from
San Francisco Theological Seminary and pursued postgraduate
work at Oxford University and the University of Edinburgh
which concluded with a Ph.D. degree in theology. He was appointed
to the Commission of Public Representation for the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) which funds annually $30B
of bioscience research.
By 2008 the twelve year old PHF Research
Park became home to 35 biotech companies.
Mike is married to
Lolly, a writer, and much of their devotion and time
in life is spent with nine grandchildren.
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| The President
of the United States, George Bush, visited Presbyterian
Health Foundation Research Park in 2008. Nearly
all of our 35 science based companies began in
basic research funded in large part by US federal
grants." |
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