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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowBioCrossroads has named the dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine as its interim chairman.
Dr. Craig Brater will serve in place of Dr. Gus Watanabe, who died last week.
BioCrossroads promotes and invests in life sciences businesses in central Indiana.
Brater will serve as interim chairman until the BioCrossroads board of directors meets later in the year to elect a permanent replacement for Watanabe.
Brater, who is also IU’s vice president with responsibility for life sciences, sits on the board of directors and the executive committee of BioCrossroads.
Brater was in part recruited by Watanabe to join the faculty at the IU medical school in 1986. Watanabe was then chairman of the department of medicine at the school.
Brater is a native of Tennessee. He attended Duke University for his undergraduate and medical studies. He spent nine years as a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
“Gus Watanabe has been my constant friend and colleague for many years, first at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and more recently in helping to build BioCrossroads,” Brater said in a statement. “At this important time, I am prepared to do all I can to be sure that the critical work of BioCrossroads continues to move ahead.”
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