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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. Other roles include Head of Biology at TopoTarget A/S, where she was responsible for the pre-clinical development of belinostat which went on to gain FDA approval to treat peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 6

The Pharma Data

Taveras will lead all research and non-clinical development functions supporting the company’s pipeline of investigational therapies. 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.