Frank Paladino

         Frank V. Paladino Ph.D. is the current president of the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS) and was also selected as a ISTS Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 2013. Frank has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society (APS), American Association For the Advancement of Science (AAAS), holds the Rank of Distinguished Professor of Biology as appointed by the Purdue University Board of Trustees, co-created and serves as President of "The Leatherback Trust" an NGO based in both the USA and Costa Rica which has helped create "Parque Marino Las Baulas" a national park to protect and conserve sea turtles in Costa Rica, has published over 100 reviewed scientific journal articles with 6 appearing in either Nature or Science the top rated professional international journals, he has received over $5,000,000 in external research grant funding, mentored over 5 post-doctoral fellows, 7 Ph.D. students and 43 MS thesis students. Frank currently lives in Indiana and is a distinguished professor and chairman of biology for Purdue University in Fort Wayne. Frank was born in Brooklyn, NY USA is married to wife Christina and has 2 sons, Michael and Gregory and 3 daughters, Kaitlyn, Jessica & Rebecca and 3 granddaughters, Sophia, Leila and Alexia.