1998 – present: Health Advocacy regarding cord blood stem cell storage
- Founder and Executive Director of Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation.
- ParentsGuideCordBlood.org is one of the top 5 Google websites on this topic.
- The website averages a half million hits per month from readers in over 90 countries.
- CordBloodEducation.org hosts educational brochures for many nationalities and languages.
- The only website that actively maintains lists of all family cord blood banks, worldwide.
- The only website that has one list of all USA cord blood banks for public donations.
- The only US charity that bridges the public and private cord blood banking communities.
- The only cord blood website accredited by Health on the Net (HON).
- Member, Consumer Advocacy Committee of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) 2005-2006.
- Consulted by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) regarding operating guidelines for the federal C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program, 2005-2006.
- Consumer Advisor to the Association of Family Cord Blood Banks (AFCBB) since 2006.
- Member of Advisory Panel to Community Blood Services NJ cord blood bank since 2007.
- Steering Committee of Coalition for Regenerative Stem Cell Medicine since 2008.
- Member of SmartBank Foundation in Italy since 2010.
- Counseled numerous families with cases of medical need and referred them to transplant physicians and/or discount programs at family cord blood banks, as appropriate.
- Collaborated on the first accurate statistical prediction of the likelihood that a person will require a stem cell transplant, as a function of age.
1998 – present: Earth’s Climate Science
- Senior Support Scientist at NASA Goddard, 1998 - present
- Technical Resources Manager for SAIC Jan. 2008 - July 2009
- Contributed to 2005 successful SAIC re-compete of the GMAO contract.
- Task Leader of the MERRA project, 2004-2006.
- Designed and built the website for the Water Resources theme of NASA’s Applied Sciences program: wmp.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Designed and built the website for NASA’s Land Information System lis.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Designed and built the original website of the MERRA project: gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/merra
- Proposed and implemented a searchable data base for GMAO climate data holdings.
- Ran the fvGCM climate model for the AMIP atmospheric model inter-comparison project.
- Ran Data With-holding Experiments with the GEOS4 assimilation system.
- Prepared climate data for input into climate models, using Fortran and GrADS.
- Wrote and ran a MatLab program to solve the matrix transformation which predicts CrIS instrument observations on the basis of radiances from the AIRS satellite.
- Applied and expanded a Maximum Likelihood estimation method, written in MatLab, to determine the forecast errors of GMAO data products.
- Developed and tested software for Bayesian estimation of forecast errors.
1997 – Medical Leave
I had a daughter who went through a bone marrow transplant, but died of cancer in 1997.
Most of that year was spent in medical facilities. I have training in intravenous nursing skills.
1983 – 1996: Astronomy Research
- Held a series of positions doing research funded by grants.
- Various forms of scientific community service: Referee journal articles, referee proposals for time
on a national telescope, chair of a seminar series, mentor of a summer intern.
- My 1983 thesis project at Princeton Univ. was the first Luminosity Function of molecular clouds in galaxies.
This was derived using Maximum Likelihood statistics that could use the information in both galaxy detections and upper limits.
- From 1983 to 1985 I was on the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
and taught college classes, ranging from large lecture halls to small study groups.
- I published several papers studying the characteristics of molecular gas in galaxies.
This required observations with millimeter wavelength radio telescopes.
- I developed and published statistical methods which corrected galaxy comparisons for “Malmquist Bias”;
at greater distances only brighter members of the population are seen.
- When I came to NASA in 1986 I transitioned to infrared astronomy using satellite data,
and studied cirrus clouds in the solar neighborhood. I developed and published methods to remove the infrared signal
from zodiacal dust in the solar system and pick out molecular clouds whose signal-to-noise ratio was only 1:1000.
- In 1992 I was on the Organizing Committee for the conference, Back to the Galaxy, and co-edited the conference proceedings.
- From 1990 to 1996 I was supported by a NASA Long-Term Space Astrophysics grant on which I was Principle Investigator.
The grant amount was about a half million dollars.
- The research funded by the LTSA grant culminated in the first proof that the chemical composition of
very small dust grains and/or large molecules varies from cloud to cloud in the solar neighborhood.
Education
Ph.D. – 1983, Astrophysics, Princeton University
B.S. – 1978, Physics (summa cum laude), City University of New York at Brooklyn College
Professional Societies Requiring Nomination
| AAS | American Astronomical Society |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| AAPM | American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
Publications: Peer-Reviewed Articles and Invited Reviews
- Verter, F. 1982,
- Physics Reports, 81, 293-349
Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Verter, F., Knapp, G. R., Stark, A. A., & Wilson, R. W. 1983,
- Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 52, 289-292
Regions of Low Molecular Column Density Near the Galactic Plane
- Verter, F. 1983,
- Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in CO
- Verter, F. 1985,
- Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 57, 261-285
Catalog of CO Observations of Galaxies
- Verter, F. 1987,
- NASA Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics Report, 40 pages
Techniques for Removing Zodiacal Emission from IRAS Sky Flux Plates
- Verter, F. 1987,
- Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 65, 555-580
The Systematic Properties of CO Emission from Galaxies. I. Luminosity Function
- Verter, F. 1988,
- Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 68, 129-150
The Systematic Properties of CO Emission from Galaxies. II. Weighted Correlations
- Verter, F., & Rickard, L. J 1989,
- Astronomy & Astrophysics, 225, 27-36
Optical Depth of Molecular Gas in Starburst Galaxies: Is M82 the Prototype?
- Verter, F. 1990,
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 102, 1281-1300
CO Observations of Galaxies 1985 - 1989
- Kutner, M. L., Verter, F., & Rickard, L. J 1990,
- Astrophysical Journal, 365, 195-207
CO(2-1) Study of Molecular Clouds in the Southwest Arm of M31
- Verter, F. 1991,
- Astrophysical Journal, 375, 95-104
The CO Luminosity Function of Galaxies
- Verter, F. 1991,
- in Dynamics of Galaxies and Their Molecular Cloud Distributions,
proc. IAU Symp. no.146, ed. F. Combes & F. Casoli (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press) 137-145
In Search Of a Galaxy Sample to Study the Systematic Properties of CO Emission from Galaxies
- Verter, F. 1992,
- Astrophysical Journal, 386, 398-407
Predicted Galaxy Counts in CO Emission
- Verschuur, G. L., Rickard, L. J, Verter, F., Pound, M., & Leisawitz, D. 1992,
- Astrophysical Journal, 390, 514-535
The Separation Between Gas and Dust Filaments at the Edge of the
Expanding Shell in Eridanus
- Verter, F., 1993,
- Astrophysical Journal, 402, 141-159
Effect of Malmquist Bias on Correlation Studies with the IRAS Data Base
- Snowden, S. L., McCammon, D., & Verter, F. 1993,
- Astrophysical Journal, 409, L21-L24
The X-Ray Shadow of the High-Latitude Molecular Cloud MBM 12
- Ostriker, J. P., & Verter, F. 1993,
- in Back to the Galaxy, ed. S. S. Holt & F. Verter
(New York: American Institute of Physics) 7-17
Current Issues in the Study of the Large-Scale Properties of the Milky Way
- Chiar, J. E., Kutner, M. L., Verter, F., & Leous, J. 1994,
- Astrophysical Journal, 431, 658-673
A Comparison of CO J=2-1 and J=1-0 Emission from the Milky Way Molecular Ring
- Verter, F., & Hodge, P. 1995,
- Astrophysical Journal, 446, 616-621
GR 8: CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor at Extremely Low Metallicity
- Devlin, P. M., Verter, F., Womer, R., Ruffer, J., Snyder, H., Ivy, S. P., & Goldwein, J. W., 1995
- OncoLink Nov.95 Case of the Month,
An Infant with Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Bladder, Metastatic to the Lungs
- Magnani, L., Caillault, J.-P., Hearty, T., Stauffer, J., Schmitt, J. H. M. M., Neuhauser, R.,
Verter, F., & Dwek, E. 1996,
- Astrophysical Journal, 465, 825-839
A Search for Star Formation in the Translucent Cloud MBM 40
- Kuntz, K. D., Snowden, S. L., & Verter, F. 1997,
- Astrophysical Journal, 484, 245-255
X-Ray Shadows by High-Latitude Molecular Clouds. I. Cartography
- Verter, F., & Rickard, L. J 1998,
- Astronomical Journal, 115, 745-766
Infrared Properties of Molecular Cirrus.
I. Photometry of Extended Sources on IRAS Image Products
- Verter, F., Magnani, L., Dwek, E., & Rickard, L. J 2000,
- Astrophysical Journal, 536, 831-844
Infrared Properties of Molecular Cirrus. II. Cloud-to-Cloud Variations
in Graphite and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content
- Marcelo C Pasquini, MD, Brent R Logan, PhD, Frances Verter, PhD, Mary M Horowitz, MD,MS, &
J.J. Nietfeld, PhD: 2005
- ASH Poster #5260, 47th ASH annual meeting published Blood 2005; 106:1330
The Likelihood of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HCT) in the United States:
Implications for Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) Storage
- Bosilovich, M. G., Radakovich, J. D., da Silva, A., Todling, R., & Verter, F. 2007
- Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, CEOP Special Edition: Feb 2007.
Skin Temperature Analysis and Bias Correction in a Coupled Land-Atmosphere Data Assimilation System
- J.J. Nietfeld, PhD, Marcelo C Pasquini, MD, Brent R Logan, PhD, Frances Verter, PhD, & Mary M Horowitz, MD, MS; 2008
- Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 14:316-322
Lifetime Probabilities of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the US
- Frances Verter, PhD, & J.J. Nietfeld, PhD, 2010
- Cytotherapy 12: suppl. 1, abstract #157.
The growth of cord blood use.
date last updated: 8 August 2010
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