Gary Clapp is moving on after seven years as President and CEO of the Institute for Industrial and Applied Life Sciences at Missouri Western. Clapp says he has accepted an offer to help in the start-up of a pharmaceutical company in Kansas.

He calls the decision to leave “bittersweet.” Clapp says, “I leave knowing that my children are going to graduate from of one of the best school districts in the state, I have worked for the best regional University anywhere, and I lived in a community that is looking forward.” His resignation is effective October 31st.