David Altshuler, M.D, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. David leads research and external innovation, corporate data strategy, technology and data sciences. Before joining as Vertex’s Chief Scientific Officer, he served on the company’s board of directors from 2012 to 2014.

Prior to Vertex, Dr. Altshuler was a Founding Core Member, Deputy Director and Chief Academic Officer at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. and Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard Medical School. He completed his training in internal medicine and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the Massachusetts General Hospital.