Barbara E. Bierer, MD
Barbara Bierer, a hematologist-oncologist, is professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Bierer co-founded and now leads the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of BWH and Harvard (MRCT Center), a collaborative effort to improve standards for the planning and conduct of international clinical trials. In this capacity, she works with regulators around the world, pharmaceutical companies, CROs, academia and patients/patient advocates to harmonize policies for and approaches to clinical trial regulation. In 2017, the MRCT Center launched the non-profit Vivli, a global clinical research data sharing platform. She is also the director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law program at the Harvard Catalyst, and director of Regulatory Policy for SMART IRB. She serves as faculty in the Center for Bioethics, HMS, and Affiliate Faculty in the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law at Harvard Law School. From 2003 – 2014, Dr. Bierer served as senior Vice-President, Research, BWH. During her tenure, Dr. Bierer founded and served as executive sponsor of the Brigham Research Institute and the Brigham Innovation Hub (iHub), a focus for entrepreneurship and innovation in healthcare. She is a past chair of SACHRP and has served or serves on the Board of Directors of AAHRPP, PRIMR, MSH, Vivli, and the Edward P. Evans Foundation. She has authored over 220 publications.