David Glass, Vice President, Research, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals; Senior Lecturer, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Vagelos School of Medicine.

David J Glass, MD, has been the Vice President of Research and head of the Postdoctoral fellow program at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since 2019, and he also served in numerous roles from Staff Scientist to Vice President of the Muscle Program at Regeneron from 1991 – 2005. In between his work at Regeneron, he was Executive Director of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Glass serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the FSHD Society and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Genetics & Development at Columbia University’s Vagelos School of Medicine. He holds a BS from Columbia, an MD from New York Medical College and conducted postdoctoral work at Columbia University. He is the co-author of more than 120 peer-reviewed research articles on cell signaling mechanisms in neuromuscular disease, muscle atrophy & hypertrophy, obesity, cancer, and aging.  He’s the author of “Experimental Design in Biology,” published by Cold Spring Harbor Press, which is now in its 2^nd edition; and he teaches a course on the same topic at Harvard Medical School.