Joseph Lehar

Joseph Lehar is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Owkin. Prior to this, they served as the Vice President of Data Science at Janssen Pharmaceuticals from January 2018 to December 2020. In this role, they co-led a cross-departmental effort to make data-driven decisions and coordinated data science efforts across R&D. Joseph also drove outreach to academia and the industry.

Lehar has a long history of working in data science and has been instrumental in establishing J&J as a leader in the field. Joseph has led a team of 18+ data scientists in 3 sites and has supported over 50 R&D projects. Joseph has also explored, evaluated, and negotiated collaborations with external providers of RWE data.

In addition to their work at J&J, Lehar has also been involved with the American Assoc. Artificial Intelligence board and is a co-founder of the Innovate for Health fellowship program between J&J and Univ California. Joseph has also established a strategic research collaboration with Google Research focused on J&J projects.

Joseph Lehar has a Ph.D. in Physics/Astrophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.A. in Physics from Brandeis University, and they attended high school at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School.

Joseph Lehar reports to Thomas Clozel, Co-Founder & CEO. Joseph Lehar works with Gilles Wainrib - Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Yedidia Levy-Zauberman - SVP, Head of Public Affairs & Impact, and Jean-Frédéric Petit-Nivard - Chief Commercial Officer. and Anna Huyghues-Despointes - Head, Strategy & Corporate Development reports to Joseph Lehar.