Bennett Shapiro

DR. BENNETT SHAPIRO is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Licensing and
External Research, where he directs Merck’s research relationships with
the academic and industrial biomedical research community. He joined
Merck Research Laboratories in September 1990 as Executive Vice
President, Basic Research, Merck Research Laboratories. In this
position, he was responsible for all the basic and preclinical research
activities at Merck worldwide. Earlier, he was Professor and Chairman of
the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington. He is
the author of over 120 papers on the molecular regulation of cellular
behavior and the biochemical events that integrate the cascade of
cellular activations at fertilization. Dr. Shapiro received his
Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Dickinson College and his Doctor’s
degree in Medicine from Jefferson Medical College. Following an
Internship in Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, he
was a Research Associate at the NIH, then a Visiting Scientist at the
Institut Pasteur in Paris and returned to the NIH as Chief – Section on
Cellular Differentiation in the Laboratory of Biochemistry, prior to
joining the University of Washington. Dr. Shapiro has been a Guggenheim
Fellow, a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a
Visiting Professor at the University of Nice. He has served on many
institutional advisory boards and scientific review panels, and is
currently a member of the Advisory Committee, Harvard – MIT Division of
Health Sciences & Technology.