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Dr. Palmer received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1981, researching insecticidal natural products under the guidance of Professor Leslie Crombie at the University of Nottingham in England. His doctoral research work was licensed to the Animal Health Division of Wellcome. In 1982, after a postdoctoral position researching cannabis chemistry, he joined Professor John Casida’s group in the Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, initially as a post doctoral researcher, then in 1985 as a specialist on the faculty. His discoveries including a new class of insecticides acting at the GABA-gated chloride channel were licensed to Wellcome, Roussel-Uclaf and Dupont. In 1991, he joined Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (ISK), as team leader for insecticide discovery at their research facility in Mountain View, California. Later in 1994, Dr. Palmer was appointed group leader of a new agrochemical discovery group at ISK’s research facility in Concord, Ohio and was then based in ISK’s main research labs in Kusatsu, Japan where he spent 8 years. During this time he worked mainly in the HPPD and PPOI herbicides area and new insecticide discovery based on natural products. Upon returning to the USA, he joined Cropsolution and was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Ohlone College. He is an inventor on 25 issued patents and an author on 47 scientific publications. | 