PatientsLikeMe appoints R&D head
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Executive Summary
PatientsLikeMe, a patient network and a real-time research platform service, has appointed Dr Jason Johnson executive vice-president and head of R&D. Dr Johnson will lead the company's research, data science, and informatics teams, which focus on analyzing and merging patient-reported and other data types to develop models of disease progression and generate new insights about disease, treatments, and health. He will report directly to CEO Martin Coulter. A computational biologist and information science strategist, Dr Johnson comes to PatientsLikeMe from Merck, where most recently he was associate vice-president for scientific informatics.