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Ken Dawson-Scully, Ph.D. joined NSU as Senior Vice-President for Division of Research and Economic Development (DoR) and Associate Provost at NSU on September 1, 2021. He is also a professor in the NSU Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Previously, he served for three years as the head of institutional partnerships at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience with a joint appointment as associate vice president for STEM partnerships at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Dawson-Scully has established translational research opportunities throughout his career, and he has produced several patents and spun-out two companies. He has served as the principal investigator for one of the first National Science Foundation (NSF) i-Corps grants in South Florida that helped accelerate more than 50 companies in the region. At FAU, Dawson-Scully was a tenured professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and fulfilled leadership positions as director of the Max Plank Honors Program; associate vice president for Strategic Initiatives; and associate director of the FAU Brain Institute. Dawson-Scully received his Bachelor of Science (with Honors) and master’s of science from Queen’s University, a doctoral degree from University of Toronto College of Medicine and completed a post-doctoral fellowship (heart and stroke) in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto.