Women in Biotech
Why are women underrepresented as leaders in the biotech industry?
This symposium will explore the divide between the large number of women who pursue advanced degrees in related scientific fields and their representation in leadership positions in biotech firms. Scientists, industry and venture capital leaders, and academics will also consider new research, experimentation, and promising models that may help industry, universities, government, and private capital improve the current system.
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Solutions and Strategies: What Works and What Has Not?
Victoria A. Budson, Executive Director, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Ann DeWitt, Senior Director of Investments, Sanofi-Genzyme Bioventures
Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
Moderated by Anula Jayasuriya, Founder, EXXclaim Capital; Cofounder, Evolvence India Life Science Fund and India Life Science Fund II
CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Defining and Analyzing the Problem
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Daniel Carpenter, Director of the Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
DEFINING AND ANALYZING THE PROBLEM
Laurel Smith-Doerr, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Deborah Dunsire, President and CEO, Forum Pharmaceuticals
Alison Wood Brooks, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Moderated by Monica Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor in Education Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
