Sheldon Broedel, Ph.D.

Program Faculty

B.S. Biology, State University, New York
M.S., Ph.D., Microbial and Molecular Genetics, UMBC

Dr. Broedel is a founder of Athena Environmental Sciences, Inc. and has served as CEO/CSO since the company’s inception in 1994. He also hold a positions as an Adjunct Instructor for the Master’s in Biotechnology at UMBC and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Broedel serves on several boards including Chairman of the Science Advisory Board for the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at UMBC, Board Member of the Science Advisory Board to Villa Julie College, Board Member of the Master’s in Biotechnology Program, UMBC and for Applied Cell Sciences, Inc. Dr. Broedel received his doctoral and master's degrees from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Microbial and Molecular Genetics and his B.S. degree in Biology from the State University of New York at Geneseo. He has 20 years of industrial experience, which included positions with Martin Marietta Laboratories, Dorlin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly ChekTec Corporation) and Athena Environmental Sciences, Inc. as well as 8 years of academic research experience. In 2005, Dr. Broedel received UMBC’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award. Dr. Broedel has published a diverse range of scientific publications, holds three issued patents, and has designed, reduced to practice and launched more than 160 products. He and his development teams have received eight SBIR grant awards for their work with infectious diseases, environmental products and diagnostic tests. His technical expertise and experience includes microbiology, genetics, molecular biology, immunochemistry, biochemistry and enzymology, drug discovery and high throughput screening, fermentation and process development, and GLP/GMP manufacturing of biologics. 

Dr. Broedel teaches BTEC 654: Emerging Topics in Biotechnology and BTEC 690: Technology Entrepreneurship.