Senior Director, Corporate Office of Science and Technology for Johnson and Johnson

Robert Zivin, PhD joined Johnson & Johnson in 1986. Bob has spent 28 years in healthcare R&D, working in biotechnology, molecular diagnostics and drug discovery, before joining COSAT in 2003. Since joining COSAT, Bob has been working on the development of new models of collaboration, with the twin aims of facilitating academic partnering and shifting the cost-reward profile of product development. Bob is also responsible for the identification and promotion of disruptive product opportunities from academic and private innovators, as well as fostering internal collaboration activities within Johnson & Johnson. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Bob was a Senior Research Scientist at Merck, Sharpe & Dohme Research Laboratories in West Point, PA. Bob received a BS degree in Biology from Northern Illinois University, and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Chicago. He subsequently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute.