Course Teaching Team
Stan Finkelstein, MD (course co-director) is a Senior Research Scientist in MIT's Institute for Data, Systems and Society in the Schwarzman College of Computing and Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS and founding director of the MD/MBA joint degree program with Harvard Business School. His research focuses on the business-government interface, medical technology, cost-effectiveness and third-party reimbursement.
Peter Sorger, PhD (course co-director) is a Professor in the Dept. of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and founding Head of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science. He was previously on the MIT faculty as professor of Biology and Biological Engineering. Sorger's research focuses on mammalian signal transduction, cancer and its treatment.
Raluca Cobzaru, BA (TA) is a PhD student in the Operations Research program at MIT. Her research is focused on developing robust models for causal inference with applications in drug repurposing.
Alan Amin, BS (TF) is a PhD student in the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program at Harvard in the lab of Debora Marks. His background is in mathematics and biochemistry. His research is focused on building and evaluating generative machine learning models of biological sequence data.
Han Xu, PhD (Education Fellow) is an education fellow in Therapeutic Science at Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS). Han has a background in biomedical engineering. In her current role, Han develops and teaches educational and training programs for HiTS.
Joshua Apgar, PhD, a former MIT graduate student, is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Applied Biomath, a startup company in Concord MA.
Birgit Schoeberl, PhD, a former MIT postdoc, is Global Head of Modeling and Simulation and PK Sciences at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) in Cambridge MA.
Ariel Stern, PhD is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School.
Elliott Antman, MD is a Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA and a a Senior Investigator in the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group.
Mike Rosenblatt, MD is Cheif Medical Officer (CMO) of Flagship Pioneering in Cambridge MA; he was previously CMO of Merck, Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine, and a Professor at Harvard Medical School.
GK Raju, PhD is Executive Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Initiatives at the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation.
Nicole LeBoeuf, MD, MPH is Clinical Director of the Center for Cutaneous Oncology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
George Demetri, MD is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Brian Alexander, MD, MPH is Chief Medical Officer of Foundation Medicine in Cambridge MA; he is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD is the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at BIDMC
PPDD was established three decades ago by course founding directors: Thomas J. Allen, Charles L. Cooney, G. K. Raju, Anthony Sinskey all of whom are still active as MIT Faculty. It has been taught continuously
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