About LSIT
Biographies
Andrew Jacobson, PhD
- Board of Directors
- Chair, Technology Advisory Board
- Chair (Interim), Industry Advisory Board
Dr. Jacobson has led IT and Informatics organizations in the life sciences industry for most of his career, and is recognized as an expert in the design and development of data integration and computational applications for research and drug development.
Dr. Jacobson has served as the Director of Research Informatics/IT Systems Management, Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. Prior to Amylin, Dr. Jacobson served as the Global Director of Application Development for Covance Laboratories, Inc., where he had responsibility for all applications used in early drug development phases. In previous positions, Dr. Jacobson has been the Director of Informatics at Cytokinetics, Inc., and has held a variety of leadership roles at BioBridge Computing AB, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Pangea Systems (Doubletwist) Inc., and Ikonic Interactive Inc.
Through his career, Dr. Jacobson has developed enterprise scale systems to bio-research, including WorksBase(R) (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc), a discovery-wide platform for data management, and Gene Thesaurus (Pangea Systems, Inc), a large scale genomic and protein bioinformatics system.
Dr. Jacobson has a doctorate degree in Pharmacology from UCLA School of Medicine.
