Jennie Mather

Born: 1949

Achievements: involved in a wide variety of research endeavors there, including leading or participating in the project teams that produced such drugs as Herceptin®, used to treat metastatic breast cancer; Activase®, a drug used to treat heart attacks, acute ischemic strokes, and acute massive pulmonary embolisms; and Pulmozyme®, an inhalation treatment for patients with cystic fibrosis;