Dr. Robert Gould is Director of Novel Therapeutics at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
Dr. Gould till recently was Vice President, Licensing and External Research, Merck Research Labs. His responsibilities included identifying early stage opportunities for collaboration or licensing with both academic and biotechnology institutions in the United States.
Dr. Gould obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1981 at The University of Iowa under the guidance of Dr. A. A. Spector, after completing his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Spring Arbor College, Michigan. He then moved to the Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland for post-doctoral studies with Dr. S. Snyder. In 1984 he joined Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Labs as a Senior Research Pharmacologist in the Pharmacology department. He has remained with Merck Research Labs for 20 years. During this time, he was responsible for identifying compounds which block glycoprotein IIb/IIIa on platelets and thus might be useful antithrombotic agents. This work culminated in the identification of Aggrastat . Prior to his current position he was Vice President, Basic Research, in West Point, Pennsylvania where he oversaw strategic direction and drug discovery activities for multiple therapeutic areas, as well as MRL's centralized high throughput screening and imaging facilities. For a number of years, he has sat as a permanent member of the internal Merck committees responsible for approval of therapeutic area strategy, for entry of compounds into development, for entry into humans, for entry into phase III trials, and for licensing activities.
Dr. Gould is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the American Heart Association (Fellow), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Licensing Executives Society. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed publications and has received numerous awards including the American Oil Chemists' Honored Student Award, the Clarence P. Berg Award for the outstanding graduate student in biochemistry at the University of Iowa, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Award for Postdoctoral Investigation, the Alumni Career Achievement Award from Spring Arbor College, Fellow of the American Heart Association, and induction into The Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.
