Professor of Medicine, Faculty Director, MRCT Center
Harvard Medical School/
Barbara E. Bierer, MD, a hematologist-oncologist, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She leads the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard, a research and policy center dedicated to strengthening multi-national clinical research. She is the Director of SMART IRB, a US national platform for single-site IRB review of multisite trials, and director of Harvard Catalyst’s Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law program, enabling the clinical trial enterprise from planning to data dissemination. She co-founded Vivli, a center for global clinical trial data, and previously served as Senior Vice-President, Research, BWH, and founded the Brigham Research Institute and Brigham Innovation Hub. Her non-profit activities and board memberships underscore her commitment to medicines development, health policy, and public health. She has authored over 320 publications.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time