Why do you think that this lady has been nominated to the board? http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/02/18/astrazeneca-nominates-a-scientist-and-pharma-skeptic-to-its-board/ (a) worms are important to drug discovery (b) we might make money by selling worming tablets (c) academics know how to run big companies (d) she is well connected for reasons that we will never know.
Oh, that type of worm. http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labheads/CoriBargmann/ Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm with just 302 neurons...well that will help is cure Alzheimer's disease
