David Golan, MD, PhD

David E. Golan, the George R. Minot Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at HMS, was appointed dean for research operations and global programs in 2019. He previously served for 11 years as HMS dean for basic science and graduate education and special advisor for global programs. His laboratory in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology applies biophysical and cell-imaging methods to the study of membrane proteins in blood cells. Dr. Golan is a senior physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he sees patients as a practicing hematologist and clinician teacher. Dr. Golan founded and directed the core course in pharmacology in the New Pathway curriculum at HMS from 1989 to 2006, and he co-directs a translational pharmacology course that brings together PhD students in the Therapeutics Graduate Program with MD fellows in the Master of Medical Sciences Program in Clinical Investigation at HMS. He also co-directs the Harvard Therapeutics Graduate Program and is editor-in-chief of Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, an award-winning textbook of pharmacology that is used worldwide. In his role as dean for research operations and global programs, Dr. Golan is responsible for planning, coordination and operations involving research in the School’s basic and social science departments and for planning, implementation and oversight of interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, School-wide, inter-institutional and global research initiatives and technology platforms at HMS.