Technical Advisors and Consultants

Mr. Ritchie Coryell is a former Senior National Science Foundation SBIR Manager and completed graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology. He received his MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Coryell joined NSF as an SBIR program manager in 1980. He was the first scientist to begin work there in association with Roland Tibbetts, who was the architect of the NSF program initiated in 1977. Prior to his association with NSF, Mr. Coryell held technical and business positions with Texas Instruments, Hayes International, and Jet Propulsion Laboratories. For his pioneering spirit, advocacy of the goals of the program, both within and outside NSF, and dedicated program management performance over 18 years, Mr. Coryell earned the Roland Tibbetts award.

Mr. Dick Sauer is a former NASA Life Science Project Manager and received an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from University of California. Mr. Sauer's tenure at NASA began in 1967, when he became a manager of Advanced Life Support at Johnson Space Center. Later, he became Manager of the Manned Spaceflight Nutrition Program and Manager of Spacecraft Water Quality. In 1993 he became a Deputy Director of NASA's Biotechnology Program. Mr. Sauer has 5 patents, 50 peer reviewed publications, 6 book chapters, 22 invited papers or presentations, and 16 NASA publications.

Dr. Michael Stowell received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in Chemistry and Biophysics. Dr. Stowell is currently a professor at the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including Agouron Fellow from MRC-Cambridge and Kyoto University, the Sigma Xi Award, Merck-Kelco Research Fellow, Albert L. Raymond Research Fellow, and NIH Predoctoral Service Fellow from California Institute of Technology. He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals and has received numerous research grants from National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other organizations.