2014 Plenary Session II
Dr. Kevin Lorick
Chemist/Scientific Reviewer/Consumer Safety Officer
Division of Immunology and Hematology Devices
Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health
Center for Devices and Radiologic Health
United States Food and Drug Administration
Classification and marketing of devices outside of a traditional setting
Kevin Lorick holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Chemistry from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Tulane University where he studied disruption of retinoic acid signaling pathways by Dioxin and related environmental contaminants. His Post-doc was at NCI in Bethesda where he discovered that RING finger proteins act as Ubiquitin-protein ligases. He worked in Industry as a Synthetic Organic Chemist, Cell Biologist, Director of Experimental Design, Small Business Entrepreneur. Currently he is at FDA’ Center for Devices and Radiological Health in the Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health
- Regulatory Scientist
-Consumer Safety Officer
-Member of Specialty Task Group on Nanotechnology
-Co-Director of CDRH/FDA Nanotechnology Reviewer’s Network