London, United Kingdom - AstraZeneca announced that Cornelia Cori Bargmann will be proposed for election as a non-executive director at the AGM on April 24, 2015.
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On election, the Board also proposes appointing Dr. Bargmann to AstraZeneca's Science Committee.
Dr. Bargmann is the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, New York.
She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1995.
She is a neurobiologist who studies the relationships between genes, neural circuits and behaviour.
Dr. Bargmann holds a degree in biochemistry from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied oncogenes with Robert Weinberg.
Dr. Bargmann pursued a postdoctoral fellowship with H. Robert Horvitz at MIT until 1991, when she accepted a faculty position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, spending 13 years there, latterly as Vice-Chair of the department.
She took up her current position at The Rockefeller University in 2004.
Dr. Bargmann is the recipient of the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, one of nine individuals who will be presented with awards by The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia this year.
John Varley, senior independent Non-Executive Director and Dame Nancy Rothwell, Non-Executive Director, both intend to retire from the Board at the close of the AGM.
Mr. Varley was formerly Group Chief Executive of the Barclays Group, having held a number of senior positions with the bank during his career, including that of Group Finance Director.
Mr. Varley is also a Non-Executive Director of BlackRock, Inc., Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited, as well as being Chairman of Business Action on Homelessness and of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Dame Nancy versees responsible business on behalf of the Board. She is a distinguished life scientist and academic and is the President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester.
She is also President of the Society of Biology and Co-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology. ■