Kenneth Souza is currently Associate Director for Life Sciences at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he is responsible for the Center's Life Sciences programs. He earned his A.B. in Bacteriology in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.S. degree in Microbiology from California State University at San Jose. He joined NASA in 1966 as a research scientist and conducted research in areas ranging from exobiology to developmental biology with over 40 publications. His experiment aboard the Shuttle Spacelab-J mission in 1992 demonstrated, for the first time in a vertebrate species, that gravity was not required for fertilization and development. He has managed a variety of spaceflight projects including the joint US/Russian Cosmos Biosatellite Project and Shuttle middeck and Spacelab payloads. He is a charter member and an officer of the American Society for Space and Gravitational Biology.

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