Mark Selby:
CLASS OF 1972
Abraham Lincoln High SchoolClass of 1972
San francisco, CA
Mark's Story
Life after Lincoln.......there was (is) plenty. I was not comfortable in high school and had but a few friends. I was certainly not part of the "in" or "cool" crowd. So it was....not a problem.
Thereafter I went to UCBerkeley. I was not ready for the university and should have done something else for a couple of years first. In any event, I graudated in Micro. I worked for a couple of years and then went back to school. I worked on a Master's at SFSU. I was admitted to UCSF where I finished a Ph.D and postdoc. I met my wife at UCSF. She was a visiting investigator from Chile. We both worked in biotech, part of the time together at Chiron. My wife stay at Chiron where her division was acquired by Novartis and then Griffols She is now retired. I went to Medarex which was acquired by BMS. I worked there for 18 years and we made the first anti-PD-...Expand for more
1 antibody for cancer immunotherapy. It has cured some and extend life for many. For the past 1+ year I am working at a novel startup which is fun. But these times are challenging with the pandemic and lack of functional president.
We have two boys, one of whom went to Lincoln. The oldest went to Lowell and then eventually graduated from UCLA in PolySci. He lived in Taiwan for 1.5 years and traveled a lot in Asian. He works in the tech sector. My youngest works in the hotel industry.
Not much else to tell. Just living and getting older like everyone else.
I still get together routinely with Alex Cois and Darryl Loo. Unfortunately the other member of our group, Joe Lopez, passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2008.
My Spanish is pretty good now, having traveled to Chile numerous time. It is a real handy asset to have in California. Saludos, Mark
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