Mark Fishman
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Mark Fishman is a noted researcher and clinician in cardiology and the current President of the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research (NIBR), the main research arm of Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Novartis
Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

 with over 5,000 employees and a 2008 budget of $5.7B.

Fishman was appointed President of the newly-founded Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research in 2002 to implement a new strategy in Novartis' global drug discovery effort. He is the author of over 100 publications and known for pioneering research using the zebrafish as a means of visualizing the development of the circulatory system and as a model for human disease.

Career

He was previously a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....

, Chief of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts...

, and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts...

. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine.

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