Diane Joseph-McCarthy
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Diane Joseph-McCarthy

American Scientist and Biomedical Engineer

Diane Joseph-McCarthy is an American biomedical engineer whose work focuses on computational approaches to drug discovery.2

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About

She serves as Executive Director of the Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC) and Professor of Practice in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University

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Companies

Early life and education

  • 1986 to 1992Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Philosophy3 4
  • 1992 to 1998Harvard University postdoctoral research3 5

After graduating from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Joseph-McCarthy went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to obtain a PhD under Professor Gregory A. Petsko and Martin Karplus. After that, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard University.

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Career

Occupation: engineer, researcher.9

Joseph-McCarthy has worked in both academic and industrial settings in the fields of computational chemistry and drug discovery. Earlier in her career, she was employed in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. While working for AstraZeneca in the Infection Innovative Medicines & Early Development unit, she participated in research projects related to the creation of antimicrobial medications.

Later, she became Vice President of Translational Science and then Senior Vice President of Discovery and Early Development at EnBiotix.

Later on, Joseph-McCarthy joined Boston University, where she is currently the Executive Director of the Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC). The program supports bioengineering and translational science research and entrepreneurship projects.

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