Biographies

Andrew Jacobson, PhD

Andrew Jacobson is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Life Sciences IT Global Institute, and chairs the Technology Advisory Board, where he shepherds the development of “Good Informatics Practices” guidance documents for IT process, compliance, infrastructure and operations in Life Science and Healthcare organizations.

Dr. Jacobson has served as VP, Information Systems at Veracyte, Inc, where he had responsibility for corporate IT, including research, clinical trials, IVD device development and CLIA Lab systems. Prior to Veracyte, Dr. Jacobson served as the Director of Information Business Solutions at Cubist Pharmaceuticals in Lexington, MA with responsibility for R&D Informatics, IT applications and database systems. Dr. Jacobson previously served as Director of IT at Amylin Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, where he led the Research Informatics area, as well as manufacturing IT development and applications and database technology across the company.

Dr. Jacobson has served as the Global Director of Applications for Covance Laboratories, with worldwide responsibility for Pre-Clinical and early stage Clinical systems, enterprise databases and professional services for major accounts. Dr. Jacobson has been the Director of Informatics at Cytokinetics, Inc., and has served in business development and product leadership positions at BioBridge Computing AB, a genomic and proteomic software company, as well as in product and technology leadership positions at Bio-Rad Laboratories and Pangea Systems (DoubleTwist) Inc.

Through his career, Dr. Jacobson has led business technology and informatics teams, best practices development and governance for IT. Dr. Jacobson has both a scientific and systems engineering background, and earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, where he established the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging Confocal Microscopy Laboratory.