Thomas W. Orme, Ph.D.
14001 Harpers Ferry Road
Purcellville, Virginia 20132-1729

Telephone: (540)-668-6189

Fax: (540)-668-6440

Email: Orme_T@mediasoft.net

• Citizenship: United States of America

  Date and Place of Birth: July 24, 1941; Washington, D.C.

  Military Status: Major, United States Army Retired Reserves

Education:

• 1959 The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania

  1960 English Speaking Union Fellowship, Tonbridge School, Kent, England

  1964 A.B. Harvard University (Major, Biochemical Sciences)

  1968 Ph.D. University of Southern California (Microbiology: Mentor, Prof. Arnold F. Brodie)

Employment:

1996 to present -- Director of family effort to establish a Thomas and Evelyn Orme Learning Center on Grandale Farm in honor of my parents.

1988 to present (teaching not continuous)-- Self-Employed. Sole-proprietor, Consultant Services in Biotechnology. Toxicologist for the New York Blood Center. Part-time instructor in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Part-time positions at Shepherd College and Northern Virginia Community College. Primary source of income is consulting work in toxicological and pharmaceutical information.

1984-1988 -- Served the Blood Derivatives Program of the New York Blood Center at manufacturing facility in Melville, NY. Managed the Chemistry Quality Control Lab. Promoted to Assistant Director of Quality Control, Associate Director of Plasma Processing, and Associate Director of Process Chemistry. Named Co-Inventor in patent of process to inactivate viruses contaminating blood products.

1981-1983 -- Established a technical writing business to support pharmaceutical companies submitting toxicological data to the FDA.

1979-80 -- National Toxicology Program, NCI, Carcinogenesis Testing Program Pharmacologist/Toxicologist, Toxicology Branch, Civil Service Commission, career tenured, GS 14

1976-79 -- National Cancer Institute, Carcinogenesis Testing Program Manager, Bioassay and Program Resources Branch, Civil Service Commission, career conditional, GS 13

1971-76 -- National Cancer Institute, Viral Biology Branch Research in viral immunology. Public Health Service Senior Staff Fellowship (stationed two years at the Frederick Cancer Research Center)

1968-70 -- Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry (Munich, Germany) American Cancer Society Fellowship, Research on methods to produce yeast fatty acid mutants. (Mentor, Prof. Feodor Lynen)

Memberships:

Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce

Loudoun County 4-H Clubs Past President, Past member of the Loudoun 4-H Advisory Council, Lovettsville Farmers Club

Council on Agricultural Science and Technology (Board Member)

American Association of Blood Banks, American Red Cross Past Treasurer - Huntington Chapter, Long Island, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society for Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Harvard Club of New York City, Harvard Club of Washington, D.C., Harvard Club of Long Island, English Speaking Union, Washington D.C. Branch,

National Press Club

Honors: DHEW Citation for Special Achievement

Hobbies: Farming, choir.

Publications: 30 publications in medical journals.