Megan Scudellari | Jan 1, 2011 | 7 min read
By Megan Scudellari The Profits of Nonprofit The surprising results when drug development and altruism collide Victoria Hale, founder of the Institute of OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the US POPTECH In the beginning, they called her a fool. When pharmaceutical chemist Victoria Hale told friends and colleagues that she wanted to start a nonprofit pharma company, they laughed at her, said it was career suicide, that it could