Kathy Giusti

Kathy Giusti

Kathy Giusti is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC). Following her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, Kathy founded the MMRF in 1998 to fund innovative myeloma research and drug discovery. She then founded the MMRC in 2004 to enable leading research institutions to work with industry to speed the discovery and development of effective new treatments for myeloma. A graduate of Harvard Business School with an MBA in general management, Kathy began her career with Merck & Co., and later joined the Gillette Company. She the joined G.D. Searle & Co., where she last served as Executive Director of Searle's worldwide arthritis franchise. Kathy received the 1998 Healthcare Businesswomen's Association's Woman of the Year Award, the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Award, the 2002 McCarty Cancer Foundation Humanitarian Award, the 2002 Joseph Michaeli Award from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, the 2005 Harvard Business School Award for Courage and Valor, and the 2006 Partners in Progress Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Kathy's has served on the Institute of Medicine's National Cancer Policy Board and the Cancer Leadership Council. She currently serves on the [National Cancer Advisory Board, having been appointed to the position by President Bush, the Board of Directors for IMS Health, and is a member of the Health Research Alliance. Most recently, Kathy's efforts to advance cancer research and drug development have been featured in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and on NBC Nightly News.

She is a resident of New Canaan, Connecticut, where the foundation was first headquartered before moving to neighboring Norwalk, Connecticut. ["Lance Armstrong to be honored at MMRF gala", no-byline article in "The New Canaan Advertiser", August 1 2007: "Kathy Giusti, founder and chief executive officer of the MMRF, and a New Canaan resident"]

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