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David Walter Barry, pharmaceutical executive, infectious diseases physician, researcher. Achievements include 15 patents for treatment of viral infections, patent for the Use of Azidothymidine to Treat Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and American Red Cross, for the Treatment of Idiopathic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura. Visiting fellow University Maryland, 1975-1976.

Background

Barry, David Walter was born on July 19, 1943 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Walter and Claire Barry.

Education

Bachelor in French literature with highest honors magna cum laude, Yale College, 1965; student, Sorbonne, Paris, 1963-1964; Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1969.

Career

Intern, then resident, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1969-1972; staff associate, director, acting deputy director division virology, bureau biologics, Food and Drug Administration, 1972-1977; head anti-infectives section, department clinical investigation, medical division, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1977-1978; head department clinical investigation, medical division, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1978-1985; head department virology, Wellcome research laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1983-1989; director division clinical investigation, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1985-1986; vice president research Wellcome research laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1986-1989; vice president research, development and medical affairs, Wellcome research laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1989-1995; president Wellcom research laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1994-1995; also board directors, Burroughs Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Triangle Pharmaceuticals Inc., Durham, North Carolina, since 1995. Director influenza vaccine task force, bureau biologics Food and Drug Administration, 1976-1977, member research human subjects committee. Adjunct Professor school medicine Duke U., since 1977.

Member committee public-private sector relations vaccine innovation, institute medicine NAS, 1983, roundtable drugs and vaccines against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1989, industry liaison panel, 1992. Member Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome task force National Institutes of Health, 1986, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome program advanced.com., 1988. Deans county Yale School Medicine, since 1989.

Consultant, lecturer in field. Board directors, Wellcome Foundation, Family Health International.

Achievements

  • David Walter Barry has been listed as a noteworthy pharmaceutical executive, researcher, physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Active North Carolina Industrial (Vaccine) Commission Senior surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1972-1977. Fellow American College of Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society American, Royal Society Medicine. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, American Society Virology, American Society Microbiology, American Federation Clinical Research, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (medical and science section, committee Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 1989, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome task force 1989, R & D steering committee 1990, commission treatment drug dependence and abuse 1990-1995), North Carolina Medical Society, Durham-Orange Counties Med.Soc., Venezuelan Society Internal Medicine (honorary), Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Gracia Chin; children: Christopher, Jennifer.

Father:
Walter Barry

Mother:
Claire Barry

Spouse:
Gracia Chin

child:
Christopher Barry

child:
Jennifer Barry