Martha Farmer

Hospital Systems. She also serves on the Board of Advisors of Endicott College, the Board of Trustees of the North Shore Community College, and on the Boards of Directors of the North Shore Technology Council and the Life Sciences Consortium of the North Shore. For her work to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development on the North Shore, Endicott College recently awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. Formerly with Baxter Healthcare’s Hemoglobin Therapeutics Division, Dr. Farmer transitioned from managing the research laboratory to directing product development, communications and business development. Subsequently she consulted in clinical trial planning and analysis for two small public companies in the hemoglobin therapeutics field, Hemosol and Biopure. She co-founded the radiopharmaceutical startup, BetaGamma LLC, serving as Vice President of Marketing. She also served as bioethics adviser to StemCore, a stem cell research protocol review startup. She earned a BS in zoology and a PhD in physiology and pharmacology from Duke University, did postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University and the Naval Research Laboratory and was a Medical Ethics Fellow at Harvard University. She is an author on more than 30 publications and three patents.