Allison A. Campbell

Allison A. Campbell (born 1963, in Portland, Oregon)

Education Campbell grew up in Portland, Oregon, in a medical family: her father was a pediatric surgeon and her mother a medical technician. She then attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, working with George Nancollas to study biomineralization and the interaction of proteins with minerals at the molecular level.

Career

In 1990 Campbell began a postdoctoral fellowship in the material sciences department of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. In 1992 she joined their staff as a research scientist. She applied techniques for growing thin films on surfaces to the development of bioactive coatings. Campbell's bioceramics promote the growth of a calcium phosphate layer over implant surfaces for artificial hip and knee implants, dental implants, and pins supporting broken bones, to prevent wear and prolong implant usability. Campbell holds several patents for this new technology. The coating also kills bacteria, reducing post-surgical infections. The process was licensed to Bacterin in 2004. Campbell's work was recognized with several awards.

In 1994, she was an invited researcher at the Research Group on Mechanics of Heterogeneous Solids of the Max Planck Society at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

Campbell is an associate laboratory director for the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate Their scientific work covers a broad range of initiatives in bioenergy, microbiology, biomedical science, environmental recovery, and climate science.

Advocacy Campbell advocates for federal support of science and chemistry research and education. She is a member of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. As the 2017 president of the American Chemical Society (ACS) she has said she will work to educate both politicians and the public on the importance of the sciences as "potent forces for good in our world". 2012, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2011, Pioneer of Science Award (with George Nancollas), from Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo, New York 2006, R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine 1984, Member of the American Chemical Society

Other interests Campbell represented the U.S. as an equestrienne in the Junior World Championships in 1987. She was also a contender for the U.S. Olympic equestrian team in 1988. She is an avid cyclist and fly-fishing enthusiast.