113th ANNUAL TECHNICAL MEETING

Academy Luncheon and Speaker
H. Anne Pereira, Ph.D.

​Dr. H. Anne Pereira serves as the Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) in Oklahoma City. She has been a member of the OUHSC since 1992 when she joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology.  She rose through the ranks to full professor with tenure in Pathology, and in 2009 was appointed Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and served as the Associate Dean for Research, College of Pharmacy from 2009 to 2020.   She was named the Henry Zarrow Presidential Professor in 2008 and the David L Boren Professor in 2018. Dr. Pereira received her PhD in Pathology from the University of Melbourne in Australia and then served as a postdoctoral fellow/senior research associate at Emory University in Atlanta, before accepting her position at the University of Oklahoma.  Her research focuses on the multifunctional aspects and identification of bioactive peptides based on the innate immune system molecule, CAP37 and has had a longstanding record of federal and national funding. She has the distinction of being named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Research Program.  Dr. Pereira is the holder of over 40 US and foreign patents and is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Biolytx, an OU spin-off company responsible for the commercial development of peptide therapeutics which she developed. She was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015 for her highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.