Leslie P KozakLeslie Kozak was raised in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. In 1956 he left Yorkton to play hockey in Toronto. He graduated from St Michael's College School in 1959, and after 8 months in a Trappist Monastery in 1960-61 he signed a contract with the Leafs. In 961-62 he played for Rochester Americans and the Leafs until he fractured his skull. He then turned his attention to academic studies that led to a PhD in Chemistry from Notre Dame. In I970 he joined the research staff of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, then he moved to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in 1998. In 2010 he moved to Poland to train students in research. He is author of 177 journal publications in molecular genetics. He is proud father of 2 sons, a daughter and 6 grandchildren. He and his high school sweetheart live in Kenora, Ontario and Portland, Maine. Read More Read Less