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
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Neurodegenerative Disease, Novel Therapeutic Strategies, Biomarkers


Barbara E. Bierer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School
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
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
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
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
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
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, Center for Biomedical Innovation, MIT
Executive Director, NEWDIGS, MIT
Executive Director, NEWDIGS, MIT
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
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Research Areas: Regulatory science, Pharmaceutical policy, Drug prices

Tim Miller, PhD
Assistant 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
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Biosimilars, REMS Programs, Drug Pricing


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
Associate Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Research Areas: Biostatistics, Regulatory science