Lee Timothy Grady, RPh, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director Emeritus, United States Pharmacopeia
Lee T. Grady was born 1937 in Chicago, graduated 1955, DePaul University Academy, (science major) and then received his B.S. with High Honors, pharmacy and chemistry, 1959, and was First in Class at the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy. Following that, he received his Ph.D. (chemistry major with pharmacology and anthropology minors), University of Illinois at the Medical Center Chicago, 1963, where he was a teaching assistant in physics, analytical and physical chemistry. He twice had won National Science Foundation Cooperative Graduate Fellowships. In 1964 he married Ann Marie Gill whom he met at CIA and they have two daughters and three grandchildren.
Post-graduate employment began in Langley VA, 1963 to 1965, as a CBR (aka WMD) analyst by the Central Intelligence Agency (Top Secret clearance) attending military officer’s chemical, biological and nuclear weapons training courses. From 1966 to 1968 he was senior research pharmacologist at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research in West Point, PA., attending the Oak Ridge Radioisotopes in Research and NY University Drug Metabolism courses. From 1968-1974 Dr. Grady served as Supervisor and then Director of the Drug Standards Laboratory of the APhA Foundation (joint with the U.S. Pharmacopeia and the American Medical Assoc.), Constitution Ave, Washington, DC. From 1975 to 1978, he was Director of the USP Drug Research and Testing Laboratory, Rockville, MD.
In 1979, he became Director of the Drug Standards Division of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. in Rockville, MD. In 1995 he was named Vice-President and Director of the Division of Standards Development and in 1999 Vice-President and Director of the Division of General Policies, Requirements, Nomenclature and Labeling. He retired in May 2000 and holds the title of Vice President and Director Emeritus.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, and a 50-year member of the American Chemical Society. He was a member and section officer of the American Pharmaceutical Association’s Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences; and also the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique, and the Parenteral Drug Association. Dr. Grady served on two advisory panels of the World Health Organization and was a designated observer at the International Conference on Harmonization (of product registration requirements).
Now serves as a Docent at the National Museum of Natural History, Hall of Human Origins and the National Museum of American History Hands-on-Science Center and Spark Lab (10years), and was a National Park Service volunteer ( 4 years) at Great Falls of the Potomac NP. From 2002-2007 he consulted to pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Grady is a licensed pharmacist in Illinois and Virginia, and volunteers in the Fairfax County Medical Reserve Corps, an epidemic/terrorism emergency response group.
He was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, Rho Chi and Sigma Xi honor societies. Among other awards and recognitions, he received a Research Award from the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, and in 1990, he received the Justin L. Powers Award in Pharmaceutical Analysis, other professional recognitions followed.. In 1992, he was named an Onorario by the Nobile Collegio Chimico-Pharmaceutico Romano. Dr. Grady is a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He is an Academician of the Catholic Academy of Sciences in the United States of America, and was elected Secretary thereof the last nine years. In December 2010, the Anthology of Papers Presented to the Catholic Academy of Sciences published with him as Editor.
In addition to two hundred invited presentations at regional, national and international professional meetings and symposia, Academician Grady has authored 100 manuscripts, book chapters and other professional publications. He was responsible for four quinquennial revisions of the United Sates Pharmacopeia and was Scientific Editor of Pharmacopeial Forum for 20 years. Throughout 20 years in standards setting, in addition to scientific staff and laboratorians Dr. Grady coordinated at any one time the 50-100 volunteer scientists and practitioners who were elected experts charged with the nation's standards for the strength, quality, purity, packaging and some labeling of human and veterinary medicines.