Greater Philadelphia's Big Pharmas
A Robust Support Infrastructure
Barbara Schilberg: Champion for the region
Long before Brenda Gavin began investing in life science companies, she toiled in the trenches of public health. Fresh out of veterinary school, the Missouri native landed a two-year assignment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), a team of doctors, researchers, and scientists who investigate epidemics across the United States and around the globe.
Gavin's team was passionate about its work and kept long hours. Once when a task force was dispatched to Kingsport, Tenn., to investigate an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1977, she and her colleagues continued sifting through medical records even as hospital employees finished their shifts and headed home. ...
