Michael N. Liebman, Ph.D. is the Managing Director of Strategic Medicine, Inc and is also a Senior Institute Fellow at the Windber Research Institute after serving as its Executive Director since November, 2003. Previously, he was Director of Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. He served as Global Head of Computational Genomics at Roche Pharmaceuticals, and Director of Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. In addition, he was Director of Genomics for Vysis, Inc. and Director of Bioinformatics at the Amoco Technology Company. He has served on the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Pharmacology and Physiology/Biophysics. He serves on 12 international scientific advisory boards, consults for 5 pharma/biotech companies and has been on the economic development programs in the Philadelphia Life Sciences Sector and the State of Illinois Biotechnology Commission. He is an Invited Professor at the Shanghai Center for Bioinformatics Technology and is currently Chair of the Healthcare Task Force for the SMART program, and is on the Human Health and Medicinal Chemistry Commission of the IUPAC. His research focuses on computational models of disease progression stressing risk detection, disease process modeling and analysis of lifestyle interactions. |