David E. Golan, M.D., Ph.D. is the George R. Minot Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Senior Physician (Hematology) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Since 2019 he has served as HMS Dean for Research Initiatives and Global Programs, with responsibility for implementing and overseeing interdepartmental, interdisciplinary, and multi-institutional research initiatives and global programs. He has also served in leadership roles in medical education at HMS, and from 2008 to 2019 he served as the inaugural Dean for Graduate Education at HMS, with responsibility for developing and overseeing PhD and Master’s programs. Dr. Golan founded the core course in pharmacology in the HMS New Pathway curriculum in 1989 and directed the course for 17 years. He currently co-directs translational pharmacology courses for PhD and Master’s students at HMS. He is Editor-in-Chief of Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, a textbook now in its fourth edition that is used worldwide and that has received multiple awards from the British Medical Association. In 2012 Dr. Golan founded an interdisciplinary Therapeutics Graduate Program that trains more than 100 PhD students in the 13 life sciences PhD programs at Harvard. For the past five years he has co-chaired the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR). He currently chairs the Executive Committee of the CDC-funded Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence Lead Center for Education. Dr. Golan is a graduate of Harvard College (AB summa cum laude) and Yale University (MD; PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry), and he completed postgraduate and clinical training at HMS (Pharmacology) and BWH (Internal Medicine, Hematology). His honors include an NIH MERIT award, elected membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and the AOA Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.