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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

Linda Powers, CEO, Northwest Biotherapeutics Powers has served as the Chairman of NW Bio since 2007, and as CEO since 2011. And this is especially true in senior leadership: only one in four C-suite leaders is a woman, and only one in 20 is a woman of colour.” See her interview with Megan Thomas at the Avacta Group Open Day.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 6

The Pharma Data

Prior to that, Taveras was vice president of Small Molecule Drug Discovery and CMC Development at Biogen Idec, and Alantos Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Amgen in 2007. Prior to this, he held a position as a director of Analytical Chemistry in Drug Discovery at GlaxoSmithKline.