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Chairman and chief executive officer, Human Genome Sciences

Nationality: American.

Born: October 17, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Education: University of California, Berkeley, BA, 1966; Harvard University, PhD, 1973.

Family: Son of William R. Haseltine (retired physicist) and Jean Adele Ellsberg (French teacher); married Patricia Gercik (divorced); married Gale Hayman (creator of Giorgio perfume), 1991; children: two (first marriage).

Career: Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 1976–1978, assistant professor;...