Robert Bayer is a US researcher of lobster nutrition, management, and pathology.

Career

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Since 2018, he is serving as the chief science officer at Lobster Unlimited, a company that is creating value-added products from lobster processing waste byproducts.[1][2] From 1995 to 2018, he served as the executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine,[3][1]

Bayer is an alumnus of the University of Vermont, where he received his bachelor's and master's degree, and Michigan State University, where he received his doctoral degree.[4] He is also a professor emeritus of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Maine.[1] He holds several research patents, including one for gaffkemia vaccine[5] and another one for the application of lobster hemolymph to treat mammalian tissue lesions.[4][6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Robert Bayer - School of Food and Agriculture - University of Maine". School of Food and Agriculture. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  2. ^ "Lobster Unlimited". scratchpad. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  3. ^ Daniels, Jeff (February 20, 2017). "Treating warts with a lobster's blood? This Maine researcher is out to prove it can be done". CNBC. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Robert C. Bayer – Maine Science Festival". Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  5. ^ US 4215108, Rittenburg, James H. & Bayer, Robert C., "Lobster gaffkemia vaccine", published 1980-07-29, assigned to Research Corp. 
  6. ^ US 9078906, Bayer, Robert C., "Lobster hemolymph as a utility for treatment of mammalian tissue lesions", issued 2013-02-16