KATHLEEN L. MILLER

Kathleen L. Miller, Ph.D., received her B.A. in microbiology in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her Ph.D. in immunology at UC Berkeley in 1977, receiving the Chancellor's Patent Fund Award for Graduate Student Research. Dr. Miller spent several years in England and Brazil doing parasitological research before returning to the Bay Area. Dr. Miller investigated interleukin regeneration of hematopoesis and the role of tumor necrosis factor in malaria while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. She also worked at several Bay Area biotech companies, including Idatek, Celtrix, Collagen, and Chiron. At Chiron, she was responsible for the development and validation of biological assays. Dr. Miller published extensively and made numerous presentations. She shared her skills in communication and administration with several scientific organizations and was an early board member of East Bay AWIS. Kathleen was a warm, generous person who enjoyed helping people and had many outside interests, including travel and art. She died in June of 1994, at age 44.