David J. Lomb, PhD

David J. Lomb, PhD : Associate Principal

David J. Lomb, PhD
Associate Principal
dlomb@definedhealth.com

As an Associate Principal with Defined Health, David participates in and leads opportunity assessments as well as indication prioritization/sequencing, search, and strategy projects. David regularly contributes to projects in the oncology, dermatology, CNS, and autoimmune and inflammatory disease spaces. In addition, David leads most projects involving the fibrosis therapeutic area at Defined Health.

Prior to joining Defined Health in 2010, David was a postdoctoral fellow in the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard Medical School. As a scientist at Harvard, David studied a family of enzymes known as sirtuins which have been implicated in the regulation of aging and age-related diseases. Also while at Harvard, David was a fellow in the Early Technology Assessment Program sponsored by the Office of Technology Development. In this position, David was responsible for performing initial commercial assessments of discoveries made by Harvard faculty members.

David earned a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, where his thesis work focused on the molecular mechanisms of neuronal programmed cell death. David has also earned Bachelor of Science degrees in both Biochemical Pharmacology and Psychology from the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. David has published in peer reviewed scientific journals and has presented his work at national scientific meetings.


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