Daughter of refugees founded a biotech to combat diseases that have afflicted her family
From the San Francisco Business Times.
For Hanadie Yousef, the inspiration for pushing Juvena Therapeutics ’ aging-related drug toward its first clinical trial is never far away.
Her father, Anwar Yousef, grew up in a United Nations-administered refugee camp in Jordan. He taught himself English and escaped war and poverty by earning one of two scholarships in Jordan awarded by the British Council, a nondepartmental public body sponsored by the government, to Oxford University.
After finishing…
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