A History of Silicon Valley
This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"
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(Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi)
Victoria Hale
Victoria Hale (????, 1961) studied
pharmacy at the University of Maryland until
1983 and graduated
in pharmaceutical chemistry from U.C. San Francisco
in 1990.
She worked for the Food and Drug Administration from 1990 until 1994 when she
joined Genentech where she became an executive.
She co-founded Axiom Biomedical in 1999.
In 2000 Hale and her husband Ahvie Herskowitz started the first non-profit
pharmaceutical company, the Institute for OneWorld Health, off their San
Francisco home, a project that became
a collaboration with Jay Keasling's Amyris Biotechnologies.
In 2002 she returned to U.C. San Francisco to teach biopharmaceutical sciences.
In 2008 she founded Medicines360, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company devoted to
on maternal and children's health.
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