Margaret Liu - Ipsen SA Independent Director

Dr. Margaret A. Liu, M.D. serves as Independent Director of Ipsen SA June 7, 2017. She is currently a consultant in the fields of health, vaccines and Immunotherapy, for pharmaceutical biotechnology companies, companies institutions, universities, and government scientific research committees. She is Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden since 2003, first as as Visiting Professor, then currently as Foreign Adjunct Professor . She is also Adjunct Full Professor at the University of California at San Francisco since 2013 and President of the International Society for Vaccines since 2016. She previously held various positions in the private and public sectors in parallel with her academic career. From 1984 to 1988, she was Visiting Scientist at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 to 1989 she was Instructor of Medicine at Harvard University. From 1989 to 1995, she was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadpelphie. From 1990 at 1997, she was Director, then Senior Director of the Viral and Cell Biology Division at the Laboratories Merck. From 1997 to 2000, she was VicePresident of Research for the Vaccines and VicePresident of the Vaccines and Gene Therapy division of Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, California. From 2000 to 2002, she was Senior Advisor in Vaccinology for the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. From 2000 to 2006, she was Vice President of the Board of Transgene in Strasbourg, France. From 2005 to 2009, she was Director of Sangamo Biosciences Inc. She is a recognized scientist in the field of research and development in vaccines and vaccination programs against infectious diseases, in particular HIV and in the field of gene therapies. She holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry with honors from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from Harvard Mediccal School. since 2017.