Roy Vagelos will serve alongside the board's chairman, Paul Volcker, former head of the Federal Reserve.

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At Theravance, Merck alum Roy Vagelos lured former Merck chemist Burton Christensen, co-inventor of three antibiotics at Merck, to come out of retirement in 1998 to help create new antibiotics.

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Late last week, the FDA approved a new med called Eylea, which is made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( see this), an upstart with board members that include such heavy hitters as former Merck ceo Roy Vagelos and, as of this morning, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former executive vp and chief scientific officer at Genentech, who is currently president of Rockefeller University, the medical research institution ( read here).

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