![]() ![]() “Berkeley’s curriculum was very research-focused, so we started meeting with faculty (and their groups) early in the semester after we arrived. The first time I ever saw Berkeley, and the College, was when I showed up to start classes. Back then, we didn’t visit schools as part of the selection process. “I had an interest in the type of research that Clayton Heathcock was doing prior to my showing up at Berkeley based on the literature. “Berkeley was my first choice,” Terry states. Graduate school was next, but the question was where. His first stop was the University of Michigan where he focused on organic chemistry. Terry knew he wanted to be a chemist from high school onward. ![]() It was a great way to grow up for a competitive, sports-focused kid like myself.” I spent most of my free hours outside of school at the basketball court learning ‘playground’ rules the old-fashioned way of growing up with a lot of freedom and very little supervision. There was a city park very close to my house where all the kids would congregate. He states, “while not quite ‘West Side Story’ rough, there was plenty of mischief going on in my ‘hood’. He walked or took the city bus to school. His grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Russia and Hungary, and his parents grew up as childhood friends in Chicago. Terry grew up on the north side of Chicago in a working class, ethnically diverse neighborhood. He is engaged in bringing new therapies to market with the goal of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He has led highly successful drug discovery and development companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries for over 30 years. Most recently as co-founder of two start-ups: Flexus Biosciences and Arcus Biosciences. Beyond the laboratory, a new building will allow for a state-of-the-art technological infrastructure which is also an important component in scientific learning and discovery.” For students, it should be very hands on. Terry’s goal for creating a new research building at the College is that “the building’s infrastructure will be a point of ‘nucleation’ for students and faculty. ’85, Chem), and his wife Tori, have been engaged as supporters of the University and College of Chemistry for many years. Terry has given back to the University not only as a donor, but also as a member of the College of Chemistry Advisory Board and the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees. ![]() There is a convergence of intellectual curiosity and translation of the output of satisfying that curiosity into something practical and ideally meaningful for society, this is a very natural evolution for many scientists, the desire and vision to drive the output of their basic research into something with profound manifestations that might have otherwise been unanticipated, thought to be not feasible, or simply to solve an important practical problem.” Terry Rosen, 2019Īlumnus Terry Rosen ( Ph.D. “Science and entrepreneurial culture go hand in hand. ![]()
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