Alumni Update - Gregg Davis

Its been quite a while since I've written an update and a hell of a lot has changed in the last year or so. So much so, I'm not sure exactly where to start. Last September, I married my girlfriend of 3 years, Jaclyn Cooper. We did a small Vegas wedding at the Shalimar Wedding Chapel on the strip (outdoor package #3). The original plan had been to just elope and get married at a drive through in a convertible, but - for the sake of our mothers - we had a small wedding with direct family and a friend or two. Sean Spudich (Bro Meat) was my best man. After the wedding we sent everyone home and we did some exploring in the southwest, eventually ending up in Colorado, coincidentally for another wedding of a friend of my wife's. We both really love the open spaces in Colorado (my wife's "native") as compared to suburban Philadelphia, but we left Colorado thinking that there was nothing for me to do in the state career-wise, as most biotech/pharmaceutical R&D is located on either the east or west coasts. Turns out we were wrong...

During this time I had been becoming increasingly dissatisfied with my job at GlaxoSmithKline (that's a subject for a book). I had held out until I finished my master's degree in Pharmacology in November (GSK was paying), then started looking. My area of drug discovery expertise is pretty specific to inflammation-/immuno-pharmacology, so I started searching for openings in other big pharma and biotech companies. I found what I was looking for at a company called Array BioPharma, which was coincidentally located in Boulder, Colorado. Array is a large biotech/small pharma company which focuses on drugs for treatment of cancer and inflammation. The interview went well and they offered me a job, I accepted, and relocated all between February and May of 2008. We moved out here in the middle of May, sold our condo after 2 days on the market, found a house in a nearby town called Longmont and settled by mid-June. The move went smoothly, except my fraternity paddle was temporarily lost in Erie.... Colorado. The bulk of our stuff had been in storage while we were in temporary housing and it was misplaced by the movers, then found by the office workers, who loved it and hung it up in the front office! That's good, because the thought of it lying on some dusty floors actually gave me nightmares of potential "encouragement" by my pledge master for loosing my paddle. Anyway, since then Jackie and I have been pretty busy getting the house together, and I've been getting settled into the new job. Besides that, lots of hiking.

So that's about it. Seems like a lot for 11 months. I'll be back to PA for PSU's glorious victory over those damn Wolverines in October, and for some low-altitude drinking. My contact information and address are below to update the web site. And if anyone's out this way for skiing, they'll need to stop by for a beer or a place to stay (we have plenty of room, although we're probably about at least an hour's drive to the nearest ski slope).

Gregg Davis

Bro Simmons (F92)