Mark Fishman
Mark Fishman | |
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| Alma mater | Yale College, Harvard Medical School |
| Known for | pioneering Zebrafish research in cardiology |
| Awards | Institute of Medicine member, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine, Cardiology |
| Institutions | Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
Mark Fishman is an American cardiologist. A researcher and clinician in cardiology, he is the previous president of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR),[1] the main research arm of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.[2]
Fishman was appointed president of the newly founded Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in 2002 to implement a new strategy in Novartis' global drug discovery effort.[3] He is the author of over 100 publications[4] and known for pioneering research using the zebrafish as a means of visualizing the development of the circulatory system and as a model for human disease.[5][6][7]
Education[]
- B.A. Yale College, 1972
- M.D. Harvard Medical School, 1976
Career[]
He was previously a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine.[8]
After being the head of Novartis for 13 years, he decided to retire in 2016.[9]
References[]
- ^ http://www.novartis.com/about-novartis/people/executive-committee.shtml
- ^ http://www.novartis.com/newsroom/fact-sheet.shtml
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2009-10-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ http://www.pubmed.gov 183 results as of 20 Oct 2009
- ^ Barut, Bruce A.; Zon, Leonard I. (2000). "Realizing the potential of zebrafish as a model for human disease". Physiological Genomics. 2 (2): 49–51. doi:10.1152/physiolgenomics.2000.2.2.49. PMID 11015581. S2CID 12510521.
- ^ https://people.forbes.com/profile/mark-c-fishman/58785
- ^ http://www.baderc.org/bios/FishmanBios.pdf
- ^ "Media" (PDF).
- ^ "Fierce Biotech". Retrieved 13 December 2016.
External links[]
- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Official Homepage
- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Official Homepage
- Mark Fishman on changing the grammar of drug discovery
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