James Black
Executive Director, Technology & Scientific Computing at r/pharma
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJames Black is an Executive Director in Technology & Scientific Computing with 11 years of experience building data-driven scientific platforms across pharma, currently leading the next-generation Scientific Computing Environment at Novartis. A Cambridge-trained epidemiologist with a PhD and executive tech education from Carnegie Mellon, he combines deep domain expertise in clinical and real-world data with product leadership developed during nearly a decade at Roche. He has owned product families for Clinical Trial and RWE scientific environments and now guides cross-functional teams to operationalize analytics at scale. Based in Basel and active in the pharma community as a co-founder and non-profit board member of r/pharma, he brings an uncommon blend of academic rigor, enterprise delivery, and community-driven impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Public Health, Masters in Public Health at University of OtagoScots College, WellingtonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Epidemiology at Cambridge UniversityIT Accelerate (2 week on site executive education course with 8 week project), Innovation in Tech, IT Accelerate (2 week on site executive education course with 8 week project), Innovation in Tech at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github contributions (5)
openpharma/openpharma.github.io
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Further precompetitive collaboration in life science area.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 700 commits in 1 year 7 months
pharmacollaborationsciencelife
pharmaverse/pharmaverse.r-universe.dev
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
For the r-universe
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
universer-universe
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