Dan Cook

Profile Updated: July 23, 2021
Residing In: Encinitas, CA USA
Spouse/Partner: Wife - Connie Cook (Caldwell, Shereeliz's sister!)
Homepage: pdancook@hotmail.com
Occupation: Retired - Very active physical fitness nut! Haul grandkids around!
Children: Jess - born 1978 - Owner of a Construction Company in Taos; still makes fine furniture and is starting More…a new microbrewery tavern in Taos
Two grandkids

Danee - born 1980 - Lt. Col Cook - currently in the Army Reserve; is one of the major administrator in the San Diego Humane Society

Kim - born 1982 - Board Certified in Emergency Veterinary Medicine (DoV) in Encinitas, CA; Kim is a top ranked Ironman competitor!
Four grandkids
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I sort of got turned around - set on the right path(?) - at the NMMI - So, one great thing I did was sent all of my three kids to the NMMI for high school and two got their AA degree there!!

BS in Chemistry/Math - ENMU, 1967;
PhD in Chemistry - UNM, 1972;

Have spent 54 years in drug discovery science -

Published over 250 scientific papers and Inventor or Co-Inventor of over 350 patents

Scientific/Drug Discovery positions:

BYU, Provo, Utah; Doctoral studies

ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA; Post-Doc to R. N. Robbins - 2 years

Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert -10 years (now Pfizer)

Eastman Kodak - Formed Eastman Pharmaceuticals -2 years

Great Valley, Pa - 2 years

Cofounded Isis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad CA -10 years (now Ionis)

Founder - Biota Pharmaceuticals, 4 years

Consulted for 3 years -

Retired in 2010 -

Published a book on Amazon in 2017 "My Life In Pursue Of Exceptional Physical Fitness, Age 6 to 73 and Counting" -

Certified physical fitness trainer - ACE and NASM certifications
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Update 07/23/21

* Still hauling the CA grandkids around (age 5,7,9,11)

* Still very physically active - even after having both knees replace!! Guess I
wore them out? But, will keep going!!

* Spend a lot of time with our dogs! We are a serious "PUG" family, having eight
pugs in our immediate family!! Can't go wrong with a PUG!!

* Sorry my Lakers didn't do so well today!! Next year, yea!!

* Wish good luck to all my Roswell classmates!!! Happy aging!!!

School Story:

Lots of fist fights - but we didn't shoot each other as the current trend!

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Happy birthday Dan. Come see us this summer for the class get together. We will send you the dates as soon as we have them.

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Hi Johnny - great job with all of this!!
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