UCB congratulates Kerry Black, Head of Early Solutions U.S. Operations, and Brooke Fleming, Head of Omnichannel Marketing and Digital Enablement, for their recognition by the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) as 2022 Luminary and Rising Star, respectively. 

Congratulations to Anita Moser, Head of U.S. Neurology Assets and Optimization, and Erica Puntel, U.S. Neurology and Global Digital Business Transformation Communications Lead, for their recognition as Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) Rising Stars for 2021.

On International Women’s Day our Chief Medical Officer, Iris Loew-Friedrich, challenges leaders to step away from perfectionism in order to drive important progress towards equity. 

At UCB, we work to foster an inclusive and open environment within our company culture and are continually creating new opportunities for colleagues to foster diverse connections and advance themselves both professionally and personally. Read more about our employee resource group, Women in Leadership (WiL), which exemplifies this passion through its consistent encouragement and promotion of diversity across different functional areas and teams within UCB. 

UCB is proud to have scientists like Cierra Spencer, PhD, who are driven and share our vision to create an environment that encourages innovation, expertise, and #diversity. Cierra shares the story of how she found her passion for the pharmaceutical industry and some advice for other women in science as they pursue their career. 

UCB’s Iram Hasan, Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs, understands the importance of being flexible and attributes the milestones in her career path to this mentality. Read more from Iram on how keeping an open mind led her to launching UCB’s first PharmD fellowship program in Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA).

As a Senior Principal Data Scientist, Yuan Wang, PhD, uses her strength for uniting different people in her field to drive innovation at UCB, and encourages her team to value the importance of diversity in collaboration. Read her story. 

Last week, UCB researchers from across the country gathered virtually for the PhRMA Researcher Fly-In where more than 70 industry researchers engaged with Members of Congress. Read their stories. 

At UCB, we know we need diverse perspectives and experiences to do our best work. Passionate scientists like Nikita, who exemplify our vision to embrace new knowledge and to work to discover meaningful solutions for patients, are a driving force for innovation at UCB. Stay tuned over the next few weeks to read stories from UCB women researchers who are pushing the boundaries of science.