Professor D Carr Agyapong, Senior Programmes and Communication Officer Wellcome Fund

Interviewee began work with BW in 1977 as a "floater" secretary. She worked with Iris Evans and Garth Quinn and moved to the BW Fund full time, where she became Programme Coordinator. Her interview provides an "outsider's" view of the company and also a female viewpoint.

Topics discussed include:

* staff diversity/employment of women and ethnic

* nature of BW

* flotation, staff share offer

* structure of the secretary system

* Garth Quinn

* Burroughs Wellcome Fund: relationship with company

* impressions of Fred Coe/ company atmosphere

* Bill Sullivan - management style/company atmosphere

* Ted Haigler and Phil Tracy

* staff benefits and conditions

* George Hitchings, Gertrude Elion, research and the Nobel Prize

* Septra/Septrin, Actifed, Sudafed, Neospirin

* Howard Schaeffer

* Peter Howsam, changes he introduced in marketing

* shooting of the film Brainstorm in the company's offices

* BW Fund: independence from BW, grant from Wellcome Trust; focus and purpose; strategy

2 audiocassettes Tape 15

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