Barbara E. Bierer

Barbara E. Bierer, MD, a hematologist-oncologist and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is Faculty Director of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard, aiming to strengthen international clinical trial standards. Earlier, she cofounded Vivli, a center for global clinical trial data sharing. 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 previously served as Senior Vice President, Research, at BWH, where she founded the Brigham Research Institute and iHub.