History Live: P. Roy Vagelos in Conversation With Arnold Thackray and Jeff Sturchio Chemical Heritage Foundation • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • 2 December 2009
P. Roy Vagelos
Early in his career P. Roy Vagelos served as head surgeon at the National Institutes of Health and chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Washington University’s School of Medicine. In 1975 Vagelos joined Merck and Co., where he revitalized R&D, leading Merck to be named "most admired" corporation by Fortune 500 leaders for seven consecutive years.
CHF’s Oral History Program captures and preserves the oral memoirs of notable figures in chemistry and related fields.
History Live presents first-person accounts of legendary careers before a live audience. This interview took place 2 December 2009 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
Our Sponsors CHF's Oral History Program is supported in part by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Eugene Garfield Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts (The Pew Biomedical Scholars Oral History Project), The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation, and the Society of Chemical Industry. Other important leadership support for CHF has been provided by BASF, The Herbert and Junia Doan Foundation, Huntsman International, DuPont, The Dow Chemical Company, Horiba, Ltd., and Sunoco, Inc.
This History Live event was generously supported by Stephen Starr Events and Merck & Co., Inc.
