Barbara White
Head, Global Research & Development
Stiefel, a GSK company

Barbara White, M.D., joined Stiefel as Head of Global Research & Development in June 2011. In this role, she provides overall worldwide leadership to Stiefel’s R&D function, with responsibility for all research and product development activities at Stiefel, including prescription and consumer products.

Barbara joined Stiefel from UCB where she was Vice President and Head of Immunology Therapeutic Area and has held prior roles at MedImmune and Amgen.

Prior to her pharmaceutical career, Barbara was Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

She was formerly Associate Chief of Staff, Research Service at the Baltimore Veteran Administration (VA) Medical Center, one of the largest VA-based research programs in the country, where her research focused on immune-mediated mechanisms of lung fibrosis in scleroderma. Barbara also previously served as co-director of the Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland Scleroderma Center.

Barbara received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Allergy/Clinical Immunology. She completed her postdoctoral studies in basic cellular immunology at the National Institutes of Health.

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