Kathleen Glaub, has served as Chief Executive Officer at Afferent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since September 2014. Afferent develops clinical-stage biotechnology treatments for respiratory and urologic disorders and chronic pain. From 2001 - 20013 Ms. Glaub co-led Plexxicon, Inc., as President. There she managed the successful FDA approval for Zelboraf, the melanoma fighting drug; created a number of lucrative partnership deals with companies like swiss giant Roche and then ultimately structured a buy-out deal with japanese Daiichi-Sankyo for a record billion dollars. That same year, 2011 Kathy was recognized as one of Fierce Biotech’s top women in Biotech. She has over 30 years of management and company-building experience for biopharma and innovation-based companies. She received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in finance from Northwestern University.
The Pfizer "Moments in Leadership" Distinguished Health Leadership Speaker Series presents this talk and reception featuring Dr. Paul Farmer, recipient of the 2009 UC Berkeley International Public Health Hero Award.
Using the framework of human right to health, Dr. Farmer will speak about:
-Community-based care to improve health outcomes in settings of great poverty
--Disease specific interventions to strengthen primary health care
Dr. Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a founding director of Partners In Health, an international nonprofit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmers work draws primarily on active clinical practice and focuses on community-based treatment strategies for diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor, health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in determining the distribution and outcomes of infectious diseases.
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation