“It’s really unique to find an individual like Erik who is technically proficient in a field like chemistry and pharmacology AND is a skilled leader. Erik is a champion for each individual on his team, and you can tell that he cares not only about the work that they do, but also about them personally. He clearly holds people accountable for a high standard of work both on a scientific side, but also on “people skills” side. With his words and actions, he empowers his team to become the very best version of themselves by understanding their strengths and needs and aligning them with the goals of the team. I have been working with Erik on a leadership skills initiative where he has not only been keeping his finger on the pulse of the results through written evaluation, but he is also staying in close contact with his team by supporting and encouraging a continued practice of the learning. His diligence in this realm goes above and beyond my expectations. I have seen and heard about the respect that his direct reports have for his integrity, especially in the face of adversity. He is a staunch advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion and an informed supporter of human rights. Erik is caring, personable, empathic, in-touch, and proficient leader. I give him my highest recommendation.”
Erik Bierwagen
Redwood City, California, United States
3K followers
500+ connections
About
I am an accomplished professional with over 20 years of leadership and direct, hands-on…
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Activities and Societies: Dartmouth Wind Symphony, Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Dartmouth Glee Club, Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity,
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Volunteer Experience
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Male Engagement, Connecting People, Lifting Up Women to benefit all
Genentech Women Professionals
- 4 years 11 months
September 2022 - Present: Co-lead Male Engagement, focused on increasing allyship and support for women’s equality. Brought in well-respected speaker Brian Rusch to speak on allyship and masculinity.
September 2019 -September 2022: Co-Lead gPODs, a program that brings small groups of people across the organization together to discuss key topics, learn, support, and grow from each other with a focus on lifting up women to benefit everyone. Led through Covid pandemic and doubled…September 2022 - Present: Co-lead Male Engagement, focused on increasing allyship and support for women’s equality. Brought in well-respected speaker Brian Rusch to speak on allyship and masculinity.
September 2019 -September 2022: Co-Lead gPODs, a program that brings small groups of people across the organization together to discuss key topics, learn, support, and grow from each other with a focus on lifting up women to benefit everyone. Led through Covid pandemic and doubled participation. -
Publications
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Re-envisioning the lab: smart, connected, revolutionary
Future Labs Live
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General Principles for Driving Lab Digitalization
Pharma Data & Smartlabs Congress
Invited presentation
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Enterprise R&D technology adoption case study: Genentech
Endpoints
See publicationWebinar: A discussion about adopting new technologies in large organizations based on our experiences here at Genentech
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Sample Registration Across Domains: Data Modeling Challenges and Solutions
Digi-Tech Pharma & AI
https://corvusglobalevents.com/conference/digi-tech-pharma-ai-2021
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Our Data Management Journey at Genentech: From a Collection of Systems to a Unified Organization Supporting Research
Pharmaceutical IT & Data Congress
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Using a Data Centric Approach to Integrate Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Solutions Into a Complex Software Environment
Data Architecture Conference
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Best Practices in Personalized and Translational Medicine
Molecular Med Tri-Con, 2015
Short course
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Integrating Translational Research Tools
Molecular Med Tri-Con 2014
I discuss our efforts at creating an integrated informatics system for animal studies from birth to death and beyond. Our efforts span many different disciplines and groups, but share the common effort of integrating data seamlessly.
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Managing In-Vivo Data from Birth to Death and Beyond
11th Pharmaceutical IT Congress 2013
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We've been developing a seamless suite of applications for managing In-Vivo data at Genentech for the past decade. We will present some of the key aspects of this development activity that have led to our successes. These include:
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To Your Health: Software Development in Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED)
QCon San Francisco 2012
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Research is by definition an ever changing body of information and data. Developing software to support research efforts presents constant challenges. As we try to gain a better understanding of genetics and the underlying biology of diseases such as cancer and alzheimers, there is a great need to tie together data from disparate groups and make it easily accessible for data analysis. We need to balance many competing…Invited presentation.
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Research is by definition an ever changing body of information and data. Developing software to support research efforts presents constant challenges. As we try to gain a better understanding of genetics and the underlying biology of diseases such as cancer and alzheimers, there is a great need to tie together data from disparate groups and make it easily accessible for data analysis. We need to balance many competing needs:
Flexibility
Ease of data entry
Ensuring high quality and completeness of entered data
Easy aggregation for data analysis
Searching for and extracting appropriate data sets
Flexible display of the data
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Management of a large-scale murine genetics facility using integrated data management systems
Transgeneic Research
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Clinical and Biological Data Integration for Biomarker Discovery
Drug Discovery Today
Biomarkers hold promise for increasing success rates of clinical trials. Biomarker discovery requires searching for associations across a spectrum of data. The field of biomedical data integration has made strides in developing management and analysis tools for structured biological data, but best practices are still evolving for the integration of high-throughput data with less structured clinical data. Integrated repositories are needed to support data analysis, storage and access. We…
Biomarkers hold promise for increasing success rates of clinical trials. Biomarker discovery requires searching for associations across a spectrum of data. The field of biomedical data integration has made strides in developing management and analysis tools for structured biological data, but best practices are still evolving for the integration of high-throughput data with less structured clinical data. Integrated repositories are needed to support data analysis, storage and access. We describe a data integration strategy that implements a clinical and biological database and a wiki interface. We integrated parameters across clinical trials and associated genetic, gene expression and protein data. We provide examples to illustrate the utility of data integration to explore disease heterogeneity and develop predictive biomarkers
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Creating Command Central
59th American Association for Laboratory Animal Science National Meeting
A presentation describing our system, CMS, designed for efficient operation of a GEMM facility.
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Colony Management System (CMS): An application for managing a large mouse breeding facility"
5th Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo
A presentation describing our work developing the Colony Management System (CMS)
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Honors & Awards
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Bio-IT World Judges Prize
Bio-IT World
The Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards program was established in 2003 by the editors of Bio-IT World to recognize organizations for their outstanding innovations and excellence in the use of technologies and novel business strategies that will advance biomedical and translational research, drug development, and/or clinical trials.
Award Announcements: http://www.bio-itworld.com/2013/4/10/best-practices-winners.html
Full Article about award:…The Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards program was established in 2003 by the editors of Bio-IT World to recognize organizations for their outstanding innovations and excellence in the use of technologies and novel business strategies that will advance biomedical and translational research, drug development, and/or clinical trials.
Award Announcements: http://www.bio-itworld.com/2013/4/10/best-practices-winners.html
Full Article about award: http://www.bio-itworld.com/2013/7/19/genentech-finds-big-savings-small-places.html
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