Martha Peck, Former Director BW Fund

A qualified pharmacist, interviewee joined BW in 1977 as a Clinical Research Scientist in the Medical Division. She left briefly and rejoined the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, then still part of the company, in 1981. She retired in 2000.

Topics discussed include:

* biographical details

* impressions of the company, working atmosphere, staff benefits

* structure of Medical Division

* Clinical trials, their design, conducting them

* BW Fund: originaly funding; policy and direction; structure; relationship with company; creation as an independent body and funding from the Trust; move from the company's property

* Fred Coe

10 May 2001

audio tape and transcript Tape 22 side A

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