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David A. Shaywitz

David A. Shaywitz

David A. Shaywitz is co-founder of the Harvard PASTEUR program, a research initiative at Harvard Medical School; founding advisor of Sage Bionetworks; and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. More

Trained as a physician-scientist and management consultant, Dr. Shaywitz has experience in clinical drug development and strategic and commercial planning. Dr. Shaywitz is co-founder of the Harvard PASTEUR program, a translational research initiative at Harvard Medical School, and a founding advisor of Sage Bionetworks, a non-for-profit medical research initiative focused on open innovation. He works at a biopharmaceutical company in San Francisco; the views expressed in his postings are his own and do not represent the views of his employer. Dr. Shaywitz is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His personal website is: http://davidshaywitz.wordpress.com/.
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