Reinier Beeuwkes

COL ’62, PhD ’70, medical sciences, is chairman and president of Ischemix, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company. He served on the full-time faculty at Harvard Medical School for 11 years after receiving his degree. Since then he has been active in the pharmaceutical and medical products area, including a period as head of cardiovascular and renal pharmacology at Smith Kline and French. As entrepreneur, Beeuwkes co-founded and is a director of several small medical products companies, including Braintree Laboratories. He is active in conservation causes and has served as a trustee of the Maine chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He still holds an academic appointment at Harvard. Beeuwkes and his wife Nancy live at “October Farm” (circa 1740) in Concord, Massachusetts.