In this week’s TL;DR Shorts episode, we hear from Dr Scott Heimlich, President of the Amgen Foundation and Executive Director at Amgen, about the importance of engaging with and empowering all communities impacted by the outcomes of research that go beyond a company mission, such as through an organisation’s charitable giving in response to a disaster, or through supporting community engagement by employees with a broad range of groups.
Though Amgen’s core business priority is to serve patients, Scott talks about a handful of the many ways in which the organisation also helps make a difference within communities beyond those directly impacted by their research outputs. The Amgen Foundation has given over $450 million since its inception in 1990. Scott mentions some of the ways in which these occur on both an organisational and an individual level.
We had a longer chat with Scott and spent a few days at the Amgen biotech campus in Massachusetts, and we’ll be sharing that Speaker Series interview and another exciting new feature in 2025, so watch this space to find out much more about the very tangible ways in which Amgen’s collaboration with the Amgen Foundation helps them to meet their goals of making a difference to everyone’s lives and empowers the next generation of biotech scientists.
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