Bill Lindsay: Pharmaceutical Company HIV/AIDS Literature and Objects

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Material collected by Bill Lindsay during the course of his work in the pharmaceutical industry and attendance at conferences, comprising mainly pharmaceutical company HIV and AIDS literature, brochures and objects, conference memorabilia, videos, CDs and DVDs. Collected during the 1990s and first decade of the 21st Century. Included in the objects are items with company and/or drug marketing logo - mugs, pens, office stationary conference bags, empty pill bottles, lanyards, post-it notes, stress balls and laser pointer pens.

1990s-c.2010

Uncatalogued: 2 boxes, 4 x VHS, 1 x cassette, 79 digital files

Presented to the library at Wellcome Collection 15/04/2015 by Bill Lindsay.

William S. 'Bill' Lindsay is a former Director of Lindwood Pharma Consulting Limited. He spent 35 years in sales and marketing in pharmaceuticals with Upjohn, Roche, Pharmacia, DuPont Pharma and Gilead Sciences. Originally focusing on obstetrics and gynaecology, from the early 1990s Lindsay specialised in launching new products for the treatment of HIV including Sustiva, Truvada and Atripla. He has also recently acted as an independent advisor on HIV.

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