Victoria Hale, Ph.D, Visits JCU

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WHAT: A lecture entitled “One Social Entrepreneur's Experience in Global Health.” This event is sponsored by the Poverty and Solidarity Program, the John J. Kahl Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship, the Muldoon Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Program in Applied Ethics at John Carroll University. WHO: Victoria Hale, Ph.D., is founder and chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute for OneWorld Health, the first not-for-profit pharmaceutical company in the United States. She was CEO from its inception in 2000 until 2007. Under her leadership, the organization developed a safe, effective, and affordable new cure for visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that kills more than 350,000 Asians and Africans every year. Dr. Hale is a pharmaceutical scientist who established her expertise in pharmaceutical drug development at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and at Genentech, the world’s first biotechnology company. She earned her B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco. She was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Most recently, OneWorld Health developed an inexpensive and renewable new source of the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, Artemisinin, which cuts the cost of malaria cures by at least 10-fold. Current programs include the development of anti-secretory medicines to prevent deaths from dehydration due to diarrhea, which claims the lives of two million children annually. In 2005, OneWorld Health was awarded the Social Responsibility Award at the Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards competition. That same year the Economist named Hale the recipient of its Social and Economic Innovation award. In 2006, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. WHEN: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:30 – 9 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. WHERE: Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center John Carroll University 20700 North Park Boulevard University Heights, OH 44118 CONTACT: The Poverty and Solidarity Program John Carroll University www.jcu.edu/poverty/events.htm Mary Jane Ponyik mponyik@jcu.edu or 216.397.4980

Victoria Hale, Ph.D, Visits JCU

January 12, 2009