Quintiles

John E. Murphy has been appointed head of clinical analytics within Quintiles’ consulting business. Mr. Murphy will help pharmaceutical and clinical scientists with strategies for translational and evidence-based medicine. He is currently directing development of a statewide clinical research data and software platform across New York to connect scientists with hospitals, physicians and patients for the analysis of disease-state, selection of study patients, point-of-care clinical information and managing follow-up and therapeutic safety.

Previously, Mr. Murphy served as senior executive advisor at Booz & Co., supporting the pharmaceutical, life sciences and health care partners’ business development activities. He also served as senior vice president Strategic Consulting Services at Pharsight Corp., where he managed scientific modeling and simulation consulting, directed a specialized CRO, and managed development of metabases used to analyze compound and clinical data. Other positions he held include, vice president and chief information officer at CuraGen Corp., chief technology officer at Predict Inc., founder, president and chief executive officer of Just Medicine, Inc., and vice president for clinical software engineering at Community Health Computing.