About me
Mark Brenckle, Ph.D. Recently joined Team Alkermes as the Senior Director of Enterprise Data Science. He has taken over leadership of the Enterprise Data Science Center of Excellence, where he leads a team of Data Scientists in close partnership with functional leaders to deliver AI and data science solutions across the organization, including in R&D, commercial, manufacturing, and clinical development. Prior to Alkermes, Mark served as the Head of Digital Strategy, Data & Analytics at Generate Biomedicines, where he guided the startup towards a more universally data-driven future through the development of their initial scientific and technology roadmap, operationalization of data science solutions, and strategic planning for adoption of large language models. He also spent 5 years at BCG in their “X” group, where he guided clients across the life sciences industry in strategically-relevant analytical topics, including federated learning on patient data, clinical trial recruitment, manufacturing and material-supply optimization, commercial productivity, COVID pandemic response, and unmet patient-need identification. His engagements directly created hundreds-of-millions of dollars of impact for his clients. Mark earned his B.Sc and his Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University with research focused on fabrication methods and applications of advanced dissolvable medical implants. He is a named author on 20+ peer-reviewed publications, holds 3 patents or patent applications, including one that has been commercialized, and his work has been covered by The New York Times, Reuters, TED, and Wired Magazine.