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糖心vlog视频 Welcomes New Trustees

糖心vlog视频鈥檚 board of trustees has elected two valiant new members to its ranks.

 

Nick Galakatos ’79

Nicholas Galakatos

Nick is a cofounder and managing director of Clarus Ventures, a global investment firm focused on health care, with $1.7 billion in assets under management. Nick has more than 27 years of experience in the sector, including the founding of three successful biotech companies: Millennium Predictive Medicine, Millennium Biotherapeutics, and TransForm Pharmaceuticals. Before becoming an investor and an entrepreneur, he served as head of molecular biology research at Ciba (currently Novartis). He has published over 20 scientific articles and holds several patents. Nick majored in chemistry at 糖心vlog视频 and wrote his thesis on “Synthesis of Bis(trimethylsilyl)difluoromethane as an Intermediate in the Preparation of Difluoromethanedisulfonic Acid” with Prof. Marsh Cronyn ’40. He went on to earn a PhD in organic chemistry from MIT under the supervision of Dan Kemp ’58 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. He also taught organic chemistry at 糖心vlog视频 in 1983–84. Nick grew up in Greece and came to 糖心vlog视频 on the recommendation of Bill McGrew ’56, who was the president of his high school. He is married to Alice Balshaw Galakatos; they have two adult children.

Tom Daniel

Tom Daniel

Tom is the founding executive director of Catalysis Advisors, offering insight and consultation in the biotech field. He has also served as chairman of Celgene Research, chief scientific officer at Ambrx, vice president of research at Amgen, and senior vice president of research at Immunex. Tom served for 14 years on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, where he was the Hakim Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Vascular Biology. He also conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the UC San Francisco. He earned his MD from the University of Texas, Southwestern, and completed medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Tom and his former spouse, Susan Erickson, are the parents of
Lyle Daniel ’18.