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Dr. SHELDON BROEDEL

Adjunct Faculty

Sheldon E. Broedel, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Graduate Program Director and Instructor

B.S., Biology, State University of New York at Geneseo
M.S., Microbial Genetics, UMBC
Ph.D., Microbial Genetics, UMBC

Dr. Broedel has a combined 33 years of industry and academic experience. He is a founder of Athena Environmental Sciences, Inc. and has served as its CEO/CSO since the company’s inception in 1994. Dr. Broedel also hold positions as the Associate Graduate Program Director and Instructor for the MPS: Biotechnology at UMBC and as an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Dr. Broedel has held research and management positions with Martin Marietta Laboratories (now Lockheed-Martin), Dorlin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly ChekTec Corporation) and Athena Environmental Sciences, Inc. In 2005, Dr. Broedel received UMBC’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award. He has a diverse range of scientific publications, holds five issued patents, and has designed, reduced to practice and launched more than 160 products. Dr. Broedel and his development teams have received ten SBIR grant awards for their work with infectious diseases, environmental products and diagnostic tests. Athena currently has a portfolio of over 500 products serving world-wide biotechnology and consumer markets.