David S. Perlin, Ph.D. is Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of the Center for Discovery and Innovation; Professor of Medical Sciences at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center; Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences; and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
His research emphasizes studies to diagnose and overcome high threat bacterial, fungal and viral infections in high-risk patients by exploiting insights obtained from molecular investigations of drug resistance, pathogenicity, and host response to improve current therapies, and develop novel drugs and diagnostics.