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Dr Rosenblatt added:
"Shire stands out in the global pharmaceutical industry with its differentiated model, impressive growth record and exciting pipeline. I'm very pleased to be joining the Shire team at this time in the Company's development."
There are no details that are required to be disclosed under paragraph 9.6.13(1-6) of the Listing Rules of the Financial Services Authority.
Notes to Editors
Further background on Michael Rosenblatt
Fuller Albright Young Investigator Award for 'outstanding scientific
achievement' (1986)
Vincent du Vigneaud Award in peptide chemistry and biology
Chairman's Award, Merck (1989)
Soma Weiss Award of the Harvard Medical Society (1973)
Citation of Appreciation, Japan Endocrine Society (1988)
Chaired the Gordon Conference on Chemistry and Biology of peptides
Served on the NIH Physiological Chemistry Study Section On the NIH Board of Scientific Councilors of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation
Association of American Physicians
Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993)
President of the American Societyy of Bone and Mineral Researc
Elected to the Association of Osteobiology (1994)
Testified before a US Senate Hearing on US biomedical research priorities (1997)
Shire PLC
Shire's strategic goal is to become the leading specialty
biopharmaceutical company that focuses on meeting the needs of the
specialist physician. Shire focuses its business on attention deficit and
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), human genetic therapies (HGT),
gastrointestinal (GI) and renal diseases. The structure is sufficiently
flexible to allow Shire to target new therapeutic areas to the extent
opportunities arise
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