Primary Job Title Board of Directors Primary Organization 
Novartis
Gender Female
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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.
Andrews received her Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and her M.D. from the Harvard Medical
School. She completed her residency and fellowship trainings in
pediatrics and hematology/oncology at the Children’s Hospital in
Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both in the United
States, and served as an attending physician at the Children’s
Hospital, Boston. Andrews served as president of the American
Society of Clinical Investigation. She was elected as a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and to
membership of both the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She
currently serves on the Council of the Institute of Medicine and on
the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
