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Pharmaceuticals

Gates Foundation Names New Head

by Ann M. Thayer
December 23, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 51

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Credit: Elisabeth Fall
This is a photo of Susan Desmond-Hellman, the new head of the Gates Foundation.
Credit: Elisabeth Fall

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has named Susan Desmond-Hellmann as its new CEO, effective May 1. Now chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, she will be the first head of the philanthropic group from outside Microsoft. Before joining UCSF in 2009, Desmond-Hellmann, an oncologist by training, was president of product development at Genentech. She replaces Jeffrey S. Raikes, who is retiring after five years at the helm of the foundation.

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