Number of Founded Organizations 1
CB Rank (Person) 1,481,726

As Chief Medical Officer, David is responsible for driving clinical impact, working closely with management and engineering teams, and with external partners and collaborators.

Most recently at Theravance Biopharma, David focused on strategy and business development, and led a product team.

Prior, he was a management consultant at the Boston

Consulting Group, and was an early member of the Department of Experimental Medicine at Merck Research Labs.

He was also a founding advisor of Sage Bionetworks, and a co-founder of the MGH/MIT Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH).

David received his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Science, and Technology at Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at MIT. He trained in internal medicine and endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and conducted his post-doctoral research in Doug Melton’s lab at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 5
David Shaywitz is the Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, David Shaywitz has had 5 past jobs including Chief Medical Officer at DNAnexus.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
DNAnexus
Chief Medical OfficerAug 2014Nov 2017
Merck Research Laboratories
Member of the Department of Experimental Medicine
ContinuousHealth
Founder
The Boston Consulting Group
Management Consultant
Theravance Biopharma
Team Member
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Sage Bionetworks
Founding Advisor
Number of News Articles 12
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LifeSciVC | Recovering scientist turned early stage VC — When Does Digital Health Become Just Healthcare?
NewsApr 10, 2017
NewsMar 3, 2016
LifeSciVC | Recovering scientist turned early stage VC — Five Years Into the LifeSciVC Experiment
NewsMar 9, 2015