Barbara E. Bierer, M.D., a hematologist-oncologist, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Bierer co-founded and now leads the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of BWH and Harvard (MRCT Center), a collaborative effort to improve standards and conduct of international clinical trials, working with regulators, pharmaceutical companies, academia, and patients/patient advocates to harmonize policies and approaches for multisite, transnational trials. She is a co-founder of COVID-19 Collaboration Platform and of the non-profit Vivli, a global clinical research data sharing platform. She is also the Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law program at the Harvard Catalyst, and Director of Regulatory Policy for SMART IRB. She serves as Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, HMS, and Affiliate Faculty in the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. From 2003 – 2014, she served as Senior Vice-President, Research, BWH. She is past chair of SACHRP and has served or serves on the Board of Directors of AAHRPP, PRIMR, MSH, Vivli, North Star Review Board, and the Edward P. Evans Foundation.