Leaving UCSF, Desmond-Hellman Will Become Gates Foundation CEO
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Ex-Genentech executive Susan Desmond-Hellman soon will leave her position as UCSF chancellor to become CEO of the Gates Foundation. Her move signals the foundation’s ambition to lead in the science and the financing of neglected and tropical diseases, as well as in the global alliances that enable both.
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