Barbara Bierer

Barbara Bierer, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and a hematologist/oncologist. She is the faculty co-chair of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Harvard University (Harvard MRCT), a study center whose purpose is to improve the ethical, logistical and regulatory aspects of international clinical trials, with a special focus on the emerging economies, and the Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics and the Law Program of the Harvard clinical and translational sciences center. Previously she served as senior vice president, research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 11 years, and as chair of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, HHS.