Dr Annette Doherty OBE President of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Annette has 35 years of international experience working within the pharmaceutical sector, including at Warner-Lambert, Pfizer and most recently GSK where she was senior vice president, global head of product development and clinical supply. She has been directly involved in the research, development and launch of over 30 new medicines in respiratory, infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory conditions. She is the recently appointed chair of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and is also a non-executive at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She holds various trustee positions including at Addenbrookes Hospital Charitable Trust (ACT), St John Ambulance charity and member at the Tonbridge Grammar School Academy. She is a council member at Innovate UK, part of UKRI. She is currently senior advisor at Frazier Life Sciences, a team investing in and building companies developing and commercialising novel therapeutics. She has a BSc in chemistry (1982) and a PhD in organic synthesis (1985) from Imperial College London and has conducted postdoctoral research with a NATO fellowship at Ohio State University (1985-1987). In 2009, Annette was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to the pharmaceutical sector. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an honorary fellow of the British Pharmacological Society. She is the current president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024-2026).
5
Made with FlippingBook Learn more on our blog