David I. Hirsh

Dr. Hirsh is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He has served as Chairman of the Department and as Executive Vice President of Research at Columbia University. Dr. Hirsh also worked as the Executive Vice President and Director of Research at Synergen Inc. He is Chairman of the Board of the New York Structural Biology Center and a Member of the Boards of Rockefeller University and the Agouron Institute. Dr. Hirsh formerly served as the Chairman of Life Sciences Advisory Board at Warburg Pincus LLC and as a Director of several biotechnology companies. He received a B.A. degree from Reed College, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rockefeller University, and did postdoctoral studies at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England.