Jacob Aptekar, Vice President of Data Science & AI at Medidata

Jacob Aptekar is Vice President of Data Science & AI at Medidata, a part of Dassault Systemes. Dr. Aptekar has over 10 years of experience as a basic science researcher, business leader, and data scientist. Previously, he founded and led Qurator Inc, a data science company focused on the progression of chronic kidney disease and care planning for dialysis. Dr. Aptekar received an MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, his PhD from UCLA in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Mark Frye, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an AB in Physics from Harvard College.