ABOUT US

KENNETH H. FASMAN, PH.D.

Kenneth Fasman, PhD, Vice President and Chief Science Officer, joined AMRF in May, 2008. Ken has more than twenty-five years experience applying laboratory technology and information science to advance biomedical research and pharmaceutical research and development.

From 1998 to 2007, Dr. Fasman held a variety of senior R&D management positions at AstraZeneca PLC. As Vice President of R&D Informatics and a member of AZ's Enabling Science & Technology Board, he led the development of state-of-the-art bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and statistical science services, as well as the evaluation and deployment of new technologies and platforms for drug discovery.

As AZ's first VP of R&D Information and Knowledge Management, Dr. Fasman led the development of business processes and information systems for sharing knowledge across global R&D to simplify drug discovery and development and optimize the global use of AZ resources. And as Global Director of Drug Development Strategy & Performance, Dr. Fasman helped lead the long-term R&D planning process for AstraZeneca, including monitoring of key science and technology trends. He also has considerable experience with strategic planning for scientific computing in both business and academic environments.

Dr. Fasman was Director of Sequencing Informatics at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research from 1996 to 1998. From 1992 through 1996, Dr. Fasman was at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he was Informatics Director for the Human Genome Database (GDB), and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Information Sciences, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Fasman is a member of the Board of Scientific Overseers of The Jackson Laboratory, the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science & Technology Development, the advisory council of the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and the advisory board of the Boston University Graduate Program in Bioinformatics.

Dr. Fasman earned a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include pharmaceutical R&D strategy, scientific databases, biological systems modeling, genomics, sensory neurophysiology, and image processing.