Thank you for the opportunity to continue serving as Treasurer of ACS/Silicon Valley Local Section. I joined the American Chemical Society early on in my career and have enjoyed various benefits the Society offers. I will continue to ensure our Local Section has the funds to carry out the Section’s stated goals and objectives. I will also continue to support existing programs and explore new policies that would enhance our Section’s efficiency and help navigate our Section through various economic cycles.
As Councilor, I have advocated for ACS to become more vibrant and relevant to persuade younger generations to join ACS and enjoy membership benefits. I promise to listen to members to identify what’s working well and what we could be doing better to shape the future of ACS.
Biography
Ihab S. Darwish received his BS degree in chemistry from SUNY/Old Westbury and his MS and PhD degrees in Organic Chemistry from Princeton University. After a two-year postdoctoral appointment with Professor Marvin J. Miller, he joined Seattle-based Pathogenesis, a startup focusing on chronic infectious diseases. Shortly thereafter, he joined Darwin Molecular/Chiroscience/Celltech where he developed chemical libraries focusing on autoimmune diseases. In 2002, Dr. Darwish moved to the Bay Area and joined Rigel Pharmaceuticals where he worked as a medicinal chemist focusing on the development of novel, small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of viral diseases, metabolic disorders, immuno-oncology as well as oncology. In August 2021, Dr. Darwish joined Nuvation Bio, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutic candidates tackling unmet needs in oncology. Dr. Darwish joined the Silicon Valley Section upon moving to the Bay Area and accepted an appointment as an Alternate Councilor in August of 2005. In 2006 and again in 2009, he was elected to three-year terms as Alternate Councilor and was appointed Treasurer of the Section in June of 2009. In 2010, Dr. Darwish was elected as the Section Treasurer and has served in that capacity since then.