Board of Directors
Kenneth I. Kaitin, Ph.D.
Dr. Kenneth Kaitin has served as the Director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development since 1998. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Kaitin is an internationally recognized expert on the science of drug development. He publishes extensively on the factors that contribute to the slow pace and high cost of pharmaceutical R&D, and the impact of regulatory and legislative initiatives to speed new drug development and review. He also testifies in Congress on drug development issues and is frequently quoted in the business and trade press on R&D trends in the research-based pharmaceutical industry.
Dr. Kaitin is a former president of the Drug Information Association and editor-in-chief of the Drug Information Journal. He received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Rochester.