Peer Re­view: GSK re­cruits a star can­cer sci­en­tist to its board ahead of R&D re­or­ga­ni­za­tion

Lau­rie Glim­ch­er FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Get­ty

Glax­o­SmithK­line has just ap­point­ed Lau­rie Glim­ch­er — a pi­o­neer­ing sci­en­tist and a cham­pi­on for ad­vanc­ing women to se­nior po­si­tions in the bio­med­ical world — to its board. Up un­til just 7 days ago, she was al­so on the board of Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb, a trend­set­ter in the block­buster im­muno-on­col­o­gy world. And the move just may say some­thing about GSK CEO Em­ma Walm­s­ley’s ideas about the fu­ture of the com­pa­ny, which now re­port­ed­ly in­clude a plan to re­vamp the pipeline.

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