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Headshot of Pfizer Board Member Susan Desmond-Hellmann

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H

Board Member of Open AI, Stand Up To Cancer and the Integrated Genomics Institute. Senior Advisor at Lazard, Inc. in the Healthcare Group. Senior Advisor at GV (formerly Google Ventures) a venture capital firm investing in life science and health technologies. CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a private foundation committed to enhancing global healthcare, reducing extreme poverty and expanding educational opportunities, from 2014 to 2020. Served as the first female, and ninth overall, Chancellor of UCSF from 2009 to 2014 and remains an Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. From 1995 through 2009, employed at Genentech where she served as President of Product Development from 2005 to 2009, overseeing pre-clinical and clinical development, business development and product portfolio management. Prior to joining Genentech, Associate Director, Clinical Cancer Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Director of: (i) Meta from 2013 to 2019; and (ii) Procter & Gamble from 2010 to 2017. Received the Hockfield Cancer Research Prize (2023).

Headshot of Pfizer Board Member Susan Desmond-Hellmann

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H

Board Member of Open AI, Stand Up To Cancer and the Integrated Genomics Institute. Senior Advisor at Lazard, Inc. in the Healthcare Group. Senior Advisor at GV (formerly Google Ventures) a venture capital firm investing in life science and health technologies. CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a private foundation committed to enhancing global healthcare, reducing extreme poverty and expanding educational opportunities, from 2014 to 2020. Served as the first female, and ninth overall, Chancellor of UCSF from 2009 to 2014 and remains an Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. From 1995 through 2009, employed at Genentech where she served as President of Product Development from 2005 to 2009, overseeing pre-clinical and clinical development, business development and product portfolio management. Prior to joining Genentech, Associate Director, Clinical Cancer Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Director of: (i) Meta from 2013 to 2019; and (ii) Procter & Gamble from 2010 to 2017. Received the Hockfield Cancer Research Prize (2023).