Scott Barrett

Dr. Barrett is an accomplished medical oncologist and R&D expert with more than 30 years of clinical and research experience in leadership positions at major institutions in industry and academia. He has spent the last decade gaining broad expertise in the fields of target and drug discovery, most recently, as executive director/ lead of global medical affairs for targeted oncolytic therapies at Incyte Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Barrett is a trained physician-scientist, earning his bachelor’s degree at The Johns Hopkins University as a Beneficial-Hodson Scholarship recipient. He then earned his medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Barrett completed his fellowship in medical oncology where he co-authored a Phase 2, proof-of-concept study, which pioneered the use of paclitaxel for advanced breast cancer treatment in the ambulatory setting. Prior to entering the biopharmaceutical industry, he practiced academic and community-based hematology/oncology for 15 years. Dr. Barrett is board-certified in both internal medicine and in medical oncology.