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Margaret A. Liu, M.D. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2005. Dr. Liu is currently a Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and until June 2006 was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Transgène in Strasbourg. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Liu was the Senior Advisor in Vaccinology for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From 1997 to 1998 she was Vice President of Vaccines Research and from 1998-2000 was Vice President of Vaccines Research and Gene Therapy at Chiron Corporation. She joined Merck Research Laboratories in 1988 and in 1994 became Senior Director in the Department of Virus and Cell Biology. Dr. Liu serves on the editorial or advisory boards of various scientific journals and has been elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a Fellow of the Molecular Medicine Society. In 2002, Discover magazine named her one of The 50 Most Important Women Scientists. Dr. Liu earned her B.A. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, from Colorado College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. In 2002, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science from Colorado College and has received numerous honorary lectureships.
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