Julie Cheng ’84 & OneWorld Health

Julie was featured in a full page article in the Autumn 2008 issue of the Reed magazine, p. 36. The article described Julie’s work with the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit organization that “seeks out less-profitable drugs that others have abandoned, hoping to find cures for major diseases of the second and third world.” Current projects include developing a cheaper route to artemisinin, a highly prized antimalarial, and finding an antidiarrheal drug in an 800,000 compound library donated by the pharmaceutical giant, Roche. Although Julie’s work is mainly on the business and legal side, her Reed thesis title reveals her scientific background: “Reactions of benzalmethanedisulfonyl fluoride (2-phenyl-1, 1-ethenedisulfonyl fluoride)” (advisor: M. Cronyn).