Fred Oakes:
CLASS OF 1970
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Minerva High SchoolClass of 1970
Minerva, OH
Miami UniversityClass of 1981
Oxford, OH
Ohio State University - Arts & ScienceClass of 1976
Columbus, OH
Manatee High SchoolClass of 1971
Bradenton, FL
Fred's Story
I moved back to Ohio in 1969 from Bradenton, Florida and spent just my Junior year at Minerva. I opted out of my senior year (70-71) at Minerva High School and ended up spending the extra time at The Ohio State University working on my BS in chemistry for 6 years. The next years were spent at Miami University doing an MS (2 years) and PhD (3 years) degree in Organic Chemistry in 1981. That was followed by a brief 4 year post doctorate at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana doing BioOrganic Chemistry till 1985. In 1984 I married Deborah Blake. In 1985 Jeannette was born to Deborah and me. Later that year I began working at Eastman Kodak Life Sciences Division for 8 years with a one year diversion to Cetus Corp in Emeryville, CA. Then I went to Apollon, Inc a start up pharmaceutical as an Associate Director o...Expand for more
f Chemistry in 1992. I stayed with them until 1995 when I began my own company, DAO, doing DNA synthesis for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Deb and I separated in 1997 and divorced in 2000. I switched my company name to LUXXUR and did toll organic synthesis and other projects and consulting work. Later in 2000 I married Ellen Franklin Purdy nee Gillespie who already had 3 children (Dustin, Joe and Elyse) and then we had Austin followed by Trevor. I have been the stay at home Dad mostly since Austin was born in 2001 but slip in a few projects here and there. We now live in Severna Park, MD where Ellen grew up and her folks still live in the area. If you are curious about my past science look up my publications (a dozen or so) or my patents (about 17) under Fred T Oakes. Google "Fred T Oakes" use the quotes.
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