Sandeep M. Menon PhD, MPH

Sandeep Menon is Senior Vice President and the Head of Early Clinical Development at Pfizer Inc., and also holds Adjunct faculty positions at Boston University School of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine and the Indian Institute of Management. At Pfizer, he is in the Worldwide Research, Development and Medical Leadership Team and leads a multi-functional global team which includes experts in Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Clinical Pharmacology, Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, Precision Medicine including labs, Digital Medicine which includes Pfizer Research and Innovation (PfIRE) lab, Translational Imaging and Early Scientific Planning and Operations. His responsibilities span into multiple therapeutic areas including Inflammation and Immunology, Oncology, Rare Disease, Anti-Infectives and Cardiovascular and Metabolism.

He also leads Digital Medicine PfIRe (Pfizer Innovation and Research) lab with a remit to leverage state of the art technology to enable dynamic and remote monitoring of human behaviors to develop meaningful novel quantitative digital endpoints. During his years at Pfizer Sandeep has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility, from Discovery through Pivotal Studies. Prior to joining Pfizer he held late-phase leadership roles at Biogen Idec and Aptiv Solutions (now ICON). Before joining the industry, he practiced family medicine in Mumbai and was Resident Medical Officer.

Sandeep is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and was recently awarded the Young Scientist Award by the International Indian Statistical Association. He received his medical degree from Bangalore (Karnataka) University, India, and later completed his Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Ph.D. in Biostatistics at Boston University and research Assistantship at Harvard Clinical Research Institute. He is on the advisory board for the M.S. in Biostatistics program at Boston University. Sandeep serves as an associate editor of the ASA journal Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research and served as an invited committee member of the prestigious Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award offered by ASA. He has published more than 50 scientific original publications and book chapters and co-authored /co-edited six books. He has received several awards for academic, teaching and research excellence.