Women Leading & Evolving the Wisconsin Biohealth Industry: Forging the Pathway of Success in Diagnostics, Drug Development, and Clinical Trials

Pat Setji, Ayesha Ahmed, and Betsy Nugent will present an overview of their companies as well as their career journeys. A panel discussion will follow delving deeper into company strategies, challenges, and how our state and industry must continue to evolve including the importance of inclusive and diverse work cultures.

General Manager, Screening Exact Sciences Pat Setji has served as General Manager, Screening since January 2021. Prior to this role, she served as Vice President, Business Operations, leading Corporate Affairs, Commercial Operations, Organizational Engineering, as well as oversight of the Office of the CEO. Ms. Setji brings more than 20 years of experience in marketing,…

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General Counsel Nexus Pharmaceuticals   Ayesha Ahmed is General Counsel of Nexus Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing specialty and generic injectables.  After graduating from law school in 2006 Ayesha began her career at a boutique litigation firm. She then went on to clerk for the Honorable Moshe Jacobius at…

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Chief Clinical Research Officer UW Health/University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health   For the past 30 years, Ms. Nugent has worked in clinical research in everything from drug discovery to epidemiology to all phases of clinical trials. For the past 16 years, she has focused on developing innovative methods to improve the…

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