HIGH POINT, N.C., April 4, 2016 – Dr. Daniel Erb, dean of the High Point University School of Health Sciences, has been appointed vice chair of the Advisory Committee for Biotechnology in the Piedmont Triad.
Erb is one of 24 leaders in the Triad who were selected to serve on the committee. The committee is responsible for developing relationships between educational institutions, businesses, and other nonprofit and for profit groups to promote long-term economic and societal benefits to North Carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.
The committee was established in 2003 after the North Carolina Biotechnology Center opened its Piedmont Triad office – the first office outside of its Research Triangle Park headquarters. The advisory committee works closely with the Triad office, advocating for and enabling life-science employment growth throughout the region. The Triad office helps to deploy the Center’s grant and loan programs locally and to make connections that help grow the life sciences statewide.
“I am honored to have been asked to be a member of this committee,” says Erb. “To work with biotech leaders in our community and be part of facilitating the development of biotechnology opportunities in the Triad, and state, is a unique opportunity. I look forward to being on the ground level of keeping N.C. as a leader in biotechnology.”
Erb came to HPU in 2010 as its founding dean of the new School of Health Sciences after an extensive career at Duke University, where he served as the director of Graduate Studies and associate professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program for 11 years.
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