Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 2, 1999

Gary L. Wilcox – Icos Corporation (icos)

GARY L. WILCOX, Ph.D. is Executive Vice President ' Operations and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining ICOS in 1993, Dr. Wilcox served as Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and a Director Xoma Corporation. From 1982-1989, he was the President and CEO of International Genetic Engineering, Inc., known as Ingene, which was acquired by Xoma in 1989. Dr. Wilcox was a professor of microbiology and a member of the Microbiology Institute and Johnson Comprehensive Center at UCLA from 1974-1986. Currently he is a director of London Pacific Group Limited and Pepperdine University. Dr. Wilcox received his Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Profile
TWST: Could you start us off with a brief overview and history of ICOS?

Dr. Wilcox: ICOS was started in 1990 by three of the early pioneers of

biotechnology, George Rathmann, who was a founder