CAMBRIDGE, Mass.---PatientsLikeMe today announced it has appointed Jason Johnson, PhD, as Executive Vice President and head of research and development (R&D). Johnson leads the company's research, data science, and informatics teams, which focus on analyzing and merging patient-reported and other data types to develop models of disease progression and generate new insights about disease, treatments, and health. Johnson reports directly to CEO Martin Coulter.
"Jason comes to us at a time when the industry is putting patients at the center of healthcare, and using more patient-reported data to guide business and operational decisions," said Coulter. "Our research and informatics teams bring the data to life by extracting insight and meaning about the patient experience, and helping our partners see which medicines and therapeutic approaches will benefit patients the most. The combination of Jason's leadership and our scientifically-validated data will be a powerful source of insight to guide discovery, development, and treatment decision making."
A renowned computational biologist and information science strategist, Johnson comes to PatientsLikeMe after spending 14 years at Merck, most recently as Associate Vice President for Scientific Informatics. In this role, Jason helped build Merck's informatics and analytics capabilities and was responsible for applied math and modeling, scientific computing and research software engineering. Johnson held various leadership roles during his tenure at Merck within R&D and information technology (IT), and led teams responsible for early clinical development and discovery research IT, computational biology, molecular profiling, and genomics research. Prior to joining Merck, Jason worked at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a biotechnology company in Seattle, and at Pfizer.
"PatientsLikeMe's ability to bring patients together to share data and insights can transform the way healthcare is practiced and substantially increase value to patients," said Johnson. "I'm excited to be working on healthcare informatics from the perspective of the patient. I believe that amassing and analyzing relevant health and medical information from many people with similar experiences and patterns of data can deliver research insights that improve healthcare decision making and patient health."
Johnson is the author of more than 35 peer-reviewed research publications. He holds bachelor's degrees in physics and philosophy from Stanford University, a master's degree in physics from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and a PhD in biophysics from Harvard University.
About PatientsLikeMe
PatientsLikeMe® (www.patientslikeme.com) is a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine. Through the network, patients connect with others who have the same disease or condition and track and share their own experiences. In the process, they generate data about the real-world nature of disease that help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, providers, and nonprofits develop more effective products, services and care. With more than 325,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research studies. Visit us at www.patientslikeme.com or follow us via our blog, Twitter or Facebook.
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