Dr. Lester Packer is a professor in the Department of Molecular
and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. He
received a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Biochemistry from Yale University
in 1956. At Berkeley he has been Professor of Physiology
since 1961, Director of the Membrane Bioenergetics Group at the
University of California at Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory since 1972. His research, in the area
of biological oxidation and bioenergetics has emphasized studies on
the role of oxidants and antioxidants in biological systems.