Victoria Hale


Victoria Hale founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000 and was its chairman and CEO until 2008, when she became Chair Emeritus. She then went on to found Medicines360, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing medicines for women and children, including pregnant women.

Life

Hale earned her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from the UCSF School of Pharmacy. She is an Adjunct Associate professor in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, and an advisor to the World Health Organization.
Her past affiliations include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and Genentech.

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