Director of University of Wisconsin Biotech Center Resigns.(Originated from The Wisconsin State Journal)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 1996 by Galloway, Jennifer A.

Mar. 12--Richard Burgess, the founder and director of the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, is resigning to become a full-time cancer researcher at the UW-Madison.

Burgess has simultaneously held the directorship and pursued his research on gene expression since establishing the center in 1984.

"I'm getting a little tired," Burgess said Monday. "It's hard to do two full-time jobs for 12 years, especially since the center has grown to over 50 people," he said.

Burgess, 53, said he wants to spend more being a scientist and less time being an administrator.

"I felt shallow in my field," he said. "I'm looking forward to re-establishing myself as a scholar," he said.

Burgess has a joint appointment at the biotechnology center and...

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