Timothy Hammond M.B., B.S.

Tim Hammond is a professor of internal medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and Associate Chief of Staff Research at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. He is the founder and co-director of the Tulane/VA Environmental Astrobiology Center. He is an internal medicine and nephrology physician in active academic practice. He has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles and is an inventor on five patents involving tissue differentiation during suspension culture in bioreactors. Dr. Hammond has given congressional testimony on the future of biotechnology and in March 1999 Fortune magazine named him one of five scientists "Discovering tomorrow today.” He has been principal investigator or co-investigator on more than twelve academic and commercial payloads that have flown to the Mir and International Space Stations, and well as sortie missions on the space shuttle.

Dr. Hammond is the recipient of a 1998 Space Act Award, from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board, and a 2001 NASA, Group Achievement Award for formation of the Astrobiology Program. He reviews in the area of biotechnology for many agencies including NIH, NSF, DARPA, DOD, NASA, VA and the Dutch Space Agency SRON/ESA. He is on the board of advisors for Bioserve Space Technologies and the National Free-Flow Electrophoresis Resource. He serves on numerous NASA Scientific Working Groups and Investigator Working Groups. In October 2007 he was appointed Professor of Internal Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and associate chief of staff research at the Durham VA Medical Center.