William Haseltine

Director at AcastiPharma

Mr. Haseltine is a well-respected industry leader in the medical and biotechnology fields with decades of experience. Mr. Haseltine also serves as the Chairman and President of ACCESS Healthcare International, Inc. and as the Chairman of the Haseltine Foundation for Science and the Arts. He is the founder of Human Genome Science and served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for 12 years. Mr. Haseltine is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Demetrix, Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in pain and anxiety medications, and founder and director of X-VAX, which is developing a novel herpes simplex vaccine, in addition to more than a dozen other biotechnology companies. Mr. Haseltine was previously a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was the founder and chairman of the Division of Biochemical Pharmacology and the Division of Human Retrovirology. He is well-known for his seminal work on cancer, HIV/AIDS and genomics, and has authored more than 200 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a lifetime member of the New York Academy of Sciences, a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine, and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. Mr. Haseltine holds a B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University. Mr. Haseltine has served as a director of Grace since 2018.

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  • Director

    Current role