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Maria C. Freire | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Former President and Executive Director of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health |
Maria C. Freire is a Peruvian-American biophysicist who was the president and executive director of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) from 2012-2021. She also is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and Council on Foreign Relations. Freire works in global health, technology commercialization and intellectual property management, focusing on the discovery, development and access to medical interventions.[1][2]