William A. Haseltine
| William Alan Haseltine | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 17, 1944 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Residence | New York, NY |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater |
University of California Berkeley, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
William A. Haseltine (born October 17, 1944) is an American biologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for his groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS and the human genome. Haseltine was a Professor at Harvard Medical School where he founded two research departments on cancer and HIV/AIDS. Haseltine is a Founder of several biotechnology companies including Cambridge Biosciences, The Virus Research Institute, ProScript, LeokoSite, Dendreon, and Diversa. He was a founder Chairman and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, a company that pioneered the application of genomics to drug discovery. He is the President of the Haseltine Foundation for Science and the Arts and is the Founder, Chairman, and President of ACCESS Health International, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving access to high quality health worldwide. He was listed by Time Magazine as one of the world's 25 most influential business people in 2001 and one of the 100 most influential leaders in biotechnology by Scientific American in 2015.
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William Haseltine has devoted his career to improvements in human health. Early on, as a consequence of observing his mother's suffering from multiple health issues, he decided to devote his professional life to improvements in human health. He was born to a scientific family. His grandfather was an engineer, his father a Ph.D physicist. He was raised on a Naval Base, the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the Mojave Desert of California surrounded by weapons scientists and engineers. His older sister Florence received both a PhD in Biophysics and an MD, and his younger brother Eric a PhD in Neurobiology. His younger sister Susan became a specialist in computer systems. His early life is described in the book Rapture by Brian Alexander (1d) and Gene Masters by Ingrid Winkelgren (3d).
Haseltine graduated from Burroughs High School in 1962. He received a BA in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1966 and a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University in 1973.
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