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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. In 2023, the company revealed data from a Phase III trial which showed that its vaccine candidate DCVax-L more than doubled overall survival in glioblastoma patients. Dr Loubna Bouarfa, Founder and CEO, OKRA.ai

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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.