Susan Desmond-Hellmann (UCSF) - Relentless Pursuit of Innovation

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 2 February 2011

⏱️ 57 minutes

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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann has a track record of fostering environments conducive to innovation, in both the public and private sector. In this engaging lecture, the renowned oncologist shares insights from her career in biotechnology and academia on leading teams, managing risks against rewards, and innovative product development. Desmond-Hellmann also shares her belief as to why entrepreneurs must remain relentless when it comes to pursuing their goals.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures program.
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0:17.0	I have the pleasure in introducing Susan.
0:21.6	She is the chancellor of UCSF.
0:26.6	And that's essentially the same as our own President John Hennessy here at Stanford.
0:31.6	UCSF is special to me. I'm a Berkeley graduate.
0:36.6	That's one of the other campuses. But UCSF is one of the 10 campuses of the University of California.
0:43.3	But it's a medical school. Doing incredible research in that area, teaching graduate students in that area, and, like our own hospital here providing patient care. Sue was at this
1:01.6	company I'm sure you've heard about Genentech for many many years I mean she started
1:05.7	her career years before that but she was at Genentech for many many years including
1:10.5	the president of product development. We tried to have her here and years before that, but she was at Genentech for many, many years, including the President
1:12.5	of Product Development.
1:13.7	We tried to have her here in the series during that period, so we kept at it, and we
1:19.3	were successful today.
1:22.1	I don't know if you got to see the bio, but this is pretty remarkable.
1:25.9	It was a little over a year ago, Forbes magazine named Chancellor Desmond Hellman
1:31.3	as one of the world's seven most powerful innovators, calling her a hero to legions of cancer patients.
1:39.3	How many of you have had a family member? It was touched by that.
1:43.3	My mother, yeah, and I'm sure others share that.
1:47.0	So this makes it an incredible day.
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