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McMurry-Heath to communicate science's impact at BIO

NEW ON BOARDHead of Biotechnology Innovation Organization says she is ‘not a typical lobbyist;' seeks to make diversity and inclusion a priorityMcMurry-HeathGrowing up, Michelle McMurry-Heath found science "vaguely interesting" but never particularly compelling. It wasn't until her freshman year at Harvard University, when a teaching assistant in biology class suggested she give lab work a try the following summer, that she discovered the passion that would guide her career."When I went home to the Oakland-Berkeley region for the summer, I got a list of biology professors from (University of California)Berkeley, where both of my parents had gone to graduate school, and… Read More