Nancy Andrews
Board of Directors
Novartis
NOVARITIS
Australia
Biography
Nancy Andrews has been a member of the Board of Directors since February 2015. She qualifies as an independent Non-Executive Director. She is a member of the Research & Development Committee. Andrews is Dean and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the Duke University School of Medicine in the United States. She is also a professor of pediatrics, pharmacology and cancer biology. Prior to joining Duke she served as director of the Harvard-MIT M.D.-Ph.D. program and was dean for basic sciences and graduate studies and professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School. From 1993 to 2006, Andrews was a biomedical research investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She maintains a research laboratory funded by the US National Institutes of Health, studying iron homeostasis and mouse models of human diseases.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics