Speaker: Mette Peters & Adrian Hobden
Bio:
Mette Peters has been a Bainbridge Island resident since 1998. Born in Norway, grad school in the USA. Started career with a focus on cancer genetics and have spent her professional life working in for- and non-profit companies. Mette is currently a Senior Advisor at the National Institute on Aging/NIH where she focuses on questions related to data science and data sharing as applied to aging and Alzheimer’s and related dementias. Adrian Hobden has been a Bainbridge Island resident since 2011. Born and educated in England. He joined Glaxo in 1981 as a research scientist where he was asked to determine how the new techniques of gene cloning could be used in the search for novel drugs. In 1996 he relocated to Glaxo’s facility in North Carolina to manage the Company’s interactions with the biotech industry. He was recruited to Myriad Genetics to establish a pharmaceutical company. As head of that organization, Adrian oversaw two Phase 3 trials of an experimental medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease.