伊丽莎白·萨默斯,91年 was selected as 保利大学杰出成就奖获得者 in 2021. 莉斯 is Executive Director, Infectious Disease, Global Project and Alliance Management at Merck. A在贝茨学院获得生物学学士学位后, she worked for 16 years as a research scientist starting at the Rockefeller University and then moving to Merck & 有限公司公司. 作为发现生物学的实验科学家, 莉兹参与了药物开发的早期阶段. She earned her MS in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University during this time. 以她在实验室的经验为基础, 莉斯 became a core member of product development teams in the Project Management organization. She took on a role at the Icahn Institute of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she was the Director of the PMO and led a team of project managers. She then returned to Merck in 2016 where she now is accountable for the Infectious Disease Therapeutic Area as well as managing a group of project managers.