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Richard Barker is currently Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation (CASMI). He has devoted much of his career to improving the process of bringing medical innovations to patients, both in the course of a long business career and as a contributor to academic research and public policy.
Education
He was educated at Alleyn's School, London and Exeter College Oxford, where he received a BA in Chemistry. He went on to focus his research on biological applications of magnetic resonance techniques, in an Oxford DPhil and in post-doctoral periods in Munich and Leeds.
Career
His business career has spanned both Europe and the US. After a period with McKinsey, in which he headed the European Healthcare practice and also advised UK, Swiss and US pharmaceutical companies, he held a succession of senior appointments in the US. As General Manager of IBM's healthcare business, he launched Healthvillage, one of the earliest Internet healthcare applications. At Chiron, he headed the diagnostics business, which brought the latest immunodiagnostics to market. He subsequently served as chairman and chief executive of Molecular Staging, whose genome amplification technology enables gene sequencing on rare DNA samples.
On returning to the UK, he headed the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and initiated policy programmes in areas such as stratified medicine, and launched frameworks for translational partnerships between academia and industry. He formed and chairs Stem Cells of Safer Medicines, a public/private partnership formed to develop new approaches to testing potential new medicines for toxicity.
With colleagues in Oxford and UCL, he has formed CASMI to develop, test and promote new models of medical innovation. These include adaptive licensing, cell therapy regulation and a combination of therapeutic and diagnostic products to focus treatments on the patients most likely to benefit.
He chairs the South London Academic Health Science Network, which aims to improve the quality and consistency of care in that part of the NHS, and to facilitate innovations emerging from academic and industrial research into NHS application.
Recent publications
- 2030 - the Future of Medicine
- "Adaptive drug development and licensing", Richard Barker & Sarah Garner, in Regulatory Rapporteur, Vol 9, No 10, October 2012.
- "A flexible blueprint for the future of drug development", Richard Barker, Lancet. January 2010
Personal Life
Richard lives in London, is married to Michaela Barker and has three children and a number of grandchildren. He enjoys mountain walking and music.
References
- "Dr Richard W. Barker". innovativiondebate.com. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- http://2030healthfutures.com/
- http://www.aptivsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Regulatory-Rapporteur-October-2012.pdf, Regulatory Rapporteur, coauthored with Sarah Garner
- Richard Barker a. "A flexible blueprint for the future of drug development". The Lancet. Retrieved 2013-01-28.