Alice, Gayle found a nice write-up about Steve from two years ago. 
Maybe you already have read it, but in case you did not, here it is:

>From the March 2004 PNRI "LASER"

Profile: Steve Anderson

Since 1987, Steve Anderson has been the key administrative coordinator 
of the cancer/cell biology research laboratory directed by Dr. Senitiroh 
Hakomori. It is a position that gives him enormous responsibilities. It 
makes use of his broad experience as a teacher, writer, editor, and PhD, 
and it provides him with considerable satisfactions.

Hakomori is one of the world's leading scientists in cell membrane 
biochemistry. His research has pioneered the study of the role of 
glycosphingolipids in the progression and prevention of cancer. 
Previously at the Biomembrane Institute, and now at PNRI, Steve Anderson 
is the lab's interface with the "outside world," both scientific and 
non-scientific. He has edited nearly 350 papers from the Hakomori lab. 
"Every sentence," Steve says, making precise the extent of his 
responsibility. All the grant applications, progress reports, manuscript 
reviews, and other scientific documents likewise pass through his hands. 
Scientists from around the world correspond with Hakomori. Steve manages 
that correspondence, responding to inquiries, writing on Hakomori's 
behalf to researchers seeking information or scientific counsel. These 
interactions with correspondents from Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Belgium, 
Brazil, Argentina, France and China are a regular part of Steve's day, 
and give him a fascinating glimpse of their different cultures.

In addition to this scientific work, Steve also manages the day-to-day 
administrative operations of the Hakomori lab, one of the largest groups 
at PNRI. He tracks budget and purchasing, facilitates visas for visiting 
foreign scientists, and coordinates equipment repair on behalf of the 
lab scientists. He is modest in his account of this role. "I'm not 
qualified to guide or direct them," he says. "I don't understand their 
projects in depth. They don't need me to interact between them and 
Hakomori." At the same time, Steve often provides just that link, and he 
does so with great effectiveness, thanks in large part to a varied and 
accomplished past.

After a childhood in Berkeley, California, that included a year in 
Ecuador-his mother was an anthropology graduate student researching Inca 
pottery-Steve attended Harvard College where he majored in Biology. His 
graduate studies at the University of Southern California led to a 
doctoral dissertation focused on tropical ecology of mammals in Costa 
Rica. When he first came to Seattle, Steve taught anatomy and physiology 
at Seattle Central and North Seattle Community College. He edited nine 
books on osteopathy and craniosacral therapy (mostly translations from 
French) for Eastland Press. In the mid-1980s, Steve worked at Virginia 
Mason Medical Center and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 
editing and managing scientific documents. It was this experience that 
brought him to the newly-founded Biomembrane Institute in 1987 as a 
"manuscript editor." But he brought more than editing skill with him.

"I save Hakomori a tremendous amount of time," Steve says. "There are so 
many projects going on, and so much communication with 'outside people,' 
that things are always hectic around here. His research is so important, 
and he needs to maximize the time and attention given to that, rather 
than peripheral things. I understand him, and his thought processes, 
better than most people. It helps that I also understand science." It's 
an extraordinary combination. And it gives Steve real rewards. As he 
puts it, "I like the challenge and variety of the work.

It's exciting being part of an active community of scientists from 
around the world. And I like the chance to work with folks-here at PNRI 
and abroad-on the frontier of discovery."