This year's fiercest women in biopharma are seemingly doing it all.
Pioneering a fully integrated biotech in China? Check. Leading aging
research at Google's mysterious new life sciences upstart? Check. Changing the
game for biotech innovators? Running the world's largest consumer health
player? Blazing the off-P&L financing trail? Check, check, check.
But while at times our 12 honorees have made it look easy, it hasn't
necessarily been that way. Biopharma is still a world dominated by men, which,
according to Kleiner Perkins' Beth Seidenberg, means women "need to be the champions."
"It's a 50-50 world, but we see that 15% of founders or CEOs are
women. Only 15% in the 50% that are women have good ideas? Come on," she
says. Sometimes, though--as several of the women on this list know--being the
champions means more than just leading by example, and they're doing their
parts to help others to the same levels of success through recruiting,
volunteering and mentoring.