Barbara E. Bierer, M.D., a hematologist-oncologist, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School 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, www.mrctcenter.org), a collaborative effort to improve standards for the planning and conduct of international clinical trials to harmonize policies for and approaches to clinical trial regulation. In addition, she is the Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and the Law program at the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. She is the Director and PI of SMART IRB (www.SMARTIRB.org), a national effort to align single site IRB review of multi-site trials. She serves as Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, and as Affiliate Faculty in the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. From 2003 – 2014, Dr. Bierer served as Senior Vice-President, Research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (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 has authored over 320 publications.

Dr. Bierer received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.