Dr. Eric Perakslis

Eric is currently the Senior Vice President of Informatics at Takeda where he is focused on building a next generation approach to biomedical knowledge infrastructure and culture.

Most recently, Eric was the Executive Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and the Countway Library of Medicine, an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and is a faculty member of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Boston Children’ Hospital. While at HMS, Eric focused on the approval of the Department of Biomedical Informatics as a full academic department at HMS as well as industry collaborations, leading the technology efforts for multiple Ebola response programs, and building active research programs in medical product development, regulatory science and cyber security.

Prior to HMS, Eric was the Chief Information Officer and Chief Scientist (Informatics) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In this role, Eric authored the first IT Strategic Plan for FDA and was responsible for modernizing and enhancing the IT capabilities as well as the in silico scientific capabilities at FDA.

Eric serves on the editorial board of Cancer Today magazine and serves on the editorial board and as the Associate Editor for Novel Communications for the DIA flagship publication, the Journal of and Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science. Eric has also served on several the Advisory Committees for the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the SAB of NuMedii, the leadership team of Precision for Medicine, as the Chairman of the Survivor Advisory Board at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and as the Chief Information Officer of the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer in Amman, Jordan. Eric has also worked extensively with the LiveStrong Foundation, the Kidney Cancer Association, and the ScientistSurvivor program of the American Association for Cancer Research. Eric has also served as the first CTO for OneMind4Research and as a reviewer for Faster Cures.

Prior to FDA, Eric was Senior Vice President of R&D Information Technology at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals R&D and was a member of the Corporate Office of Science and Technology. During his thirteen years at J&J, Eric also held the posts of Vice President R&D Informatics, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Director of Research Information Technology as well as assistant Director and Director of Drug Discovery Research. Prior to J&J, Eric was the Group leader of Scientific Computing at ArQule Inc. and he began his professional career with the Army Corps of Engineers.

Eric has a PhD in chemical and biochemical engineering from Drexel University and also holds B.S.Che and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering.