Center Faculty & Members

Mark Albers, MD, PhD
Frank Wilkens Jr Endowed Scholar in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Neurodegenerative Disease, Novel Therapeutic Strategies, Biomarkers
Alejandra Avalos-Pacheco, PhD
Assistant Professor, Vienna University of Technology
Barbara E. Bierer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Regulatory Sciences, Ethics in Human Research, International Clinical Trials
Florence Bourgeois, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital
Research Areas: Pediatric regulatory science, Rare disease trials, Pediatric drug policies
Tianrun Cai, MD
Associate Bioinformatician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Natural language processing, Medicall informatics, Data mining
Tianxi Cai, ScD
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Science, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Precision medicine, Electronic health records, Machine learning
Andy Coravos
Co-Founder and CEO, HumanFirst
Research Areas: Digital medicine, Connected sensor technologies, Decentralized clinical trials
Frank S. David, MD, PhD
Managing Director, Pharmagellan LLC
Innovation Strategist, Brigham Research Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Research Areas: Drug pricing, Biopharma corporate finance, Drug R&D costs and incentives
Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD
Director, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT
Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science, MIT
Mark A Goldberg, MD
Associate Professor, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Research Areas: Clinical development of cancer therapeutics, Therapeutics for rare genetic diseases.
Gigi Hirsch, MD
Executive director of NEWDIGS, Center for Biomedical System Design, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center
Research Areas: Regulatory science, Pharmaceutical policy, Drug prices
Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH
Head, Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Research Areas: Regulatory science, Pharmaceutical policy, Drug prices
Anita Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH
Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Health Policy and Insurance Research
Research Areas: Health and pharmaceutical policy, International health
Marcela V. Maus, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Paula O’Keefe Endowed Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Director, Cellular Immunotherapy Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Areas: Cellular therapy, Gene-modified cell therapy, Translational research, First-in-human
Tim Miller, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Biomedical natural language processing, Unsupervised domain adaptation, Patient representation learning
Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD
Professor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Research Areas: Bayesian Statistics, Prediction Models, Cancer Genetics/Genomics
Ameet Sarpatwari, PhD, JD
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Research Areas: Biosimilars, REMS Programs, Drug Pricing
Peter Sorger, PhD
Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Ariel Stern, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Research Areas: Health care economics, Health care policy, Regulatory science
Lorenzo Trippa, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Research Areas: Biostatistics, Regulatory science