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Randy Holmes-Farley has a BA in chemistry
and biology from Cornell University (1982) and a PhD in chemistry
from Harvard University (1986). He has 40 patents, numerous
publications, and several awards in a variety of chemical
fields. In 1992 he helped start a pharmaceutical company where
he is now the Vice President of Chemical Research (GelTex
Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Genzyme). Randy is also the
co-inventor of two commercial pharmaceuticals (Renagel and
WelChol).
Randy has been reefkeeping for about 7
years, and has been active on a variety of internet boards
for that same period where he has been especially involved
in chemistry-related issues. He is presently a consultant
at Fishnet
and is the host of The Reef Chemistry Forum
at Reef Central. He has authored many reefkeeping articles
with a chemistry emphasis for Fishnet, Aquarium
Frontiers, Advanced
Aquarists Online Magazine, and this one (Reefkeeping).
Randy lives in Arlington, Massachusetts
(outside of Boston) with his wife Becky and two daughters
(ShuLan, 2, and Savannah, 4) who were adopted from China.
He also spends a fair amount of time in upstate New York (Webster)
where he and Becky grew up and presently have a vacation home
on Lake Ontario (where the picture above was taken on a very
windy day!)
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