A Pretty Nice Pasture

May 04, 2009

The former president of product development at Genentech, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, will be taking up a chancellor post at the University of California, San Francisco, after the Board of Regents votes on her appointment later this week, reports the WSJ Health Blog. Before joining Genentech, Desmond-Hellman trained at UCSF, then practiced as an oncologist. At Genentech, she oversaw the development of Avastin, Herceptin, and Rituxan.

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