Seventeen Days Before The Mast Lo Bent Sinew

Charles Berkoff was born a cockney in London, England, before being educated to respectability at Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine of the University of London  (PhD, Chemistry).  When they told him he should go far, he didn't realize they wanted him to.   And so, belatedly, he left the UK for Baltimore and The Johns Hopkins University; he went on to enjoy a long career in the US pharmaceutical industry.  He is currently President & CEO of CEBRAL, Inc., a pharmaceutical/ biotechnology consulting organization.  His true passion in life is tennis where, as an enthusiastic hacker (and a longtime American citizen), he waits patiently for an invitation to be on the US Davis Cup team.  He frequently 'enjoys' episodes of tennis elbow.

Charles has published some 50 scientific papers in international journals, 20 patents, and a dozen or so humorous articles with a drug discovery theme and a wordplay twist.  The latter include "Trouble with Digitaria  Sanguinalis," "The Molecular Biology of Humour," and "Insect Hormones - or Sex and the Single Pyrrhocoris Apterus."  His more recent web feats have taken him further afield:   "GoodRellas:  A Modern Fairy Tale"  [http://www.rosedog.com/manuscripts.asp]   "Prostate Cancer: A Grossary of Terms"  [http://www.prostatepointers.org/prostate - see Humor].
And, of  course, the stories above.

Charles lives in Edenic Sarasota, Florida, with his wife, Heide, and his two tennis racquets.

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