{"id":9767,"date":"2014-05-21T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:23:53","slug":"dr-sophie-desbiens-accepts-position-as-assistant-director-for-adaptive-licensing-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/2014\/05\/21\/dr-sophie-desbiens-accepts-position-as-assistant-director-for-adaptive-licensing-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sophie Desbiens accepts position as Assistant Director for Adaptive Licensing at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ppb\/files\/2014\/05\/Desbiens-144x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ppb\/files\/2014\/05\/Desbiens-144x150.jpg\" alt=\"Desbiens-144x150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9768 alignleft\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr. Sophie Desbiens, formerly Principal Associate at Decision Resources, has accepted a position as Assistant Director for Adaptive Licensing at MIT\u2019s Center for Biomedical Innovation in the New Drug Development Paradigms (NEWDIGS) program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NEWDIGS website, the program \u201cis a unique collaborative \u2018think and do\u2019 tank focused on enhancing the capacity of the global biomedical innovation system to more reliable and sustainably deliver new, better, affordable therapeutics to the right patients faster.<\/p>\n<p>By bringing together diverse collaborators within a safe haven setting, and leveraging MIT expertise in systems engineering, this group is well positioned to inform and enable meaningful high-impact change involving the coordinated evolution of technologies, processes, policies, and people required to achieve its mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sophie Desbiens completed her dissertation work under the mentorship of Dr. David H. Farb, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, in the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology\u00a0and graduated in 2009. The title of her dissertation was \u201cTherapeutic Agents for Cocaine Addiction: A Systems Pharmacology Approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on the new position, Sophie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sophie Desbiens, formerly Principal Associate at Decision Resources, has accepted a position as Assistant Director for Adaptive Licensing at MIT\u2019s Center for Biomedical Innovation in the New Drug Development Paradigms (NEWDIGS) program. According to the NEWDIGS website, the program \u201cis a unique collaborative \u2018think and do\u2019 tank focused on enhancing the capacity of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1784],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24009,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/24009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}