Charles O. Rutledge

Dr. Charles O.
Rutledge is a Director at BioCrossroads.
Along with being a Director for BioCrossroads, Dr. Rutledge is Vice President for Research at Purdue University.
He was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in Pharmacology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was on the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1967 to 1975.
Dr. Rutledge was then appointed Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy.
In 1987, he was appointed Dean of the Schools of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Purdue and served in this capacity until 2002.
In 2001, he was appointed Executive Director for Discovery Park, a new 126 million dollar interdisciplinary research initiative on the Purdue campus.
Dr. Rutledge has been very active in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, serving as Chair of the Council of Faculties, Chair of the Council of Deans, and Association President in 1996-97.
He has also served on the Volwiler Award Committee, the Research and Graduate Affairs Committee, the Committee on the Present and Future Needs of the Council of Faculties, the Academic Management System Organizing Committee, and was a member of the Commission on Implementing Change in Pharmacy Education.
Dr. Rutledge is a registered pharmacist in Kansas and Indiana.
He served as the first Chair of the Indiana Drug Utilization Review Board.
Dr. Rutledge earned a BS Pharmacy at the University of Kansas in 1959 and a PhD in Pharmacology at Harvard in 1966.