Cinda Herndon-King, PhD
Director, Education Programs, Georgia Bio, Georgia

Dr. Herndon-King worked extensively in the technology commercialization arena in Pennsylvania and Ohio before recently relocating to Georgia. She has consulted for economic development initiatives, technology commercialization organizations, universities and start-up companies in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. She was the founding Chief Scientific Officer of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, a regional public-private partnership established in November, 2001 to expand the life sciences industry in southwestern Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Greenhouse, she was the Director of Regional Development of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative. She spent ten years as Vice President of Business Development with the Edison Biotechnology Center, an Ohio-based public-private partnership, directing early stage investment funds aimed at advancing technology with commercial potential at fifteen universities throughout the state and seeding new business ventures. Her work experience includes serving as a principal research scientist with a new ventures division of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., and implementing business development and technology transfer programs in a biotechnology center at Lehigh University. Dr. Herndon-King received a B.S. in Biochemistry summa cum laude from Clemson University, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Oak Ridge Graduate School of the Biomedical Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and was a postdoctoral fellow of the American Cancer Society in the Department of Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. She has also served as Vice President of the Board of ASSET, Inc., a self-supporting nonprofit organization which provides professional development training and teaching materials to science teachers in the southwestern Pennsylvania region, reaching 63,000 students annually.