Kristen Slaoui (Past Speaker)

Kristen B. Slaoui, PhD is Vice President and Head of Business Development for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) North America.  She has spent nearly eighteen years with GSK, first in the research labs, where her work in pulmonary disease resulted in the discovery of the long acting muscarinic receptor antagonist in the approved medicines Anoro™ Ellipta™, Incruse™ Ellipta™, and Trelegy™ Ellipta™.   She holds multiple patents, has authored more than 40 original peer-reviewed publications, and she has had ongoing roles as a peer reviewer for a dozen established medical journals.  Since joining GSK’s Business Development teams in 2006, she has held various roles of increasing seniority and has executed more than $20 billion worth of deals and acquisitions, including the $3.6 billion acquisition of Stiefel Laboratories in 2009 and participating in the $20+ billion three-part transaction with Novartis in 2015, with transactions covering the pharma R&D, commercial, emerging markets, specialty pharma and consumer spaces. Dr. Slaoui earned Bachelor’s degrees in both Biology and Classical Studies from Gettysburg College.  She earned her Ph.D. in Physiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and completed an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.  After her term in Seattle, she accepted a position in Respiratory Drug Discovery at GSK, but continued her commitment to academic research by spending over a decade as an adjunct assistant professor at her alma mater, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.