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Roy Vagelos
02/01/2006
Roy Vagelos, Norman Augustine
A conversation about the study of science in America
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A conversation with Roy Vagelos, former CEO and Chairman of Merck & CO, and Norman Augustine, former CEO and Chairman of Lockheed Martin about whether America might be losing its scientific edge.
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Roy Vagelos
Roy Vagelos

Pindaros Roy Vagelos is the former president and CEO and chairman of the multinational pharmaceutical giant Merck.

Vagelos earned an M.D. from Columbia University in 1954. As a Columbia University Medical School trained surgeon and biochemist, Vagelos obtained a two-year assignment as a research physician at the National Institutes of Health (1956-1966). He was associated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Washington University and the Washington University School of Medicine (1966-1975) before joining Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories in Rahway (president 1976-1984). The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Vagelos has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

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