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.

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."