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Spring 2005 Departments
Exchange
Prerequisite
Foundation News
Extended Family
Alumni Connections
Class Notes
ZIP 01003
Inbox
Books Received
Alumni Photos
Features
There Goes the Neighborhood
Fab Four
The Gravest Danger
The Wonderful World of Disney
Cooking Lessons
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Class Notes
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Medicine Man
David Mazzo ’81G, ’84 PhD
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David Mazzo (photo by Thom Kendall) |
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CURE CONACER. STOP HEART DISEASE. A daunting to-do list, but it’s all in a day’s work for David Mazzo. As president and CEO of Chugai Pharma USA, he oversees a company that is developing novel therapies to treat angina and heart failure and creating drugs to alter growth molecules that play key roles in tumor formation.
Mazzo, who has spent his entire career in the pharmaceutical industry, is comfortable setting such high goals. With a strong scientific background and regulatory expertise, he has amassed a track record of over 20 years of successful product development, from discovery to manufacturing and launch—all over the world. Mazzo said his experience working abroad taught him “to see the world from a different perspective, to approach work and life with balance, and to truly appreciate other cultures.”
That lesson has extended to finding ways to manage his time effectively in order to spend time with family. “I am most proud of the fact that, despite the demands of my professional life, my wife and I have built a close, supportive, and loving family for each other and our three sons,” says Mazzo.
Mazzo also finds time to reach out, by going back to the classroom to teach the next generation of scientists and, in the community sector, serving as president of the Board of Trustees for Bonnie Brae Residential Treatment Center for Adolescent Boys. In all cases, he lives his motto, “Be fair, be decisive, and be fast, and success will be yours.” |
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