Cherie Butts
Senior Medical Director - Biogen West
- Role
- Senior Medical Director at Biogen
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cherie Butts
Cherié Butts is Medical Director - Therapeutics Development Unit at Biogen (Cambridge, MA), leading clinical trial activities for treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders. She studied neuroendocrine regulation of immunity as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and continued this work at the US Food & Drug Administration, taking on additional responsibilities of evaluating drug and biologics applications.Dr, Butts has held a number of roles since coming to Biogen in 2012, including clinical lead for Plegridy IM (now approved in the US and EU for multiple sclerosis). She served on the inaugural cohort of Biogen\'s Portfolio Transformation team, leading the probability of success theme and initiatives on change management, drug development for academic researchers, and project team learning & health. She is passionate about ensuring individuals from all backgrounds have an opportunity to contribute to the furtherance of biomedical research and works with organizations to redefine successful careers for scientists across all sectors. This includes serving as Trustee/Board member of academic institutions (Salem State University, Beth Israel-Lahey Health/Harvard Medical School) and scientific organizations (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Keystone Symposia, Society for Leukocyte Biology).
Experience
Senior Medical Director
Feb 2025 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US
Leading clinical trial activities to evaluate novel therapies in immune-mediated diseases
Education
The Johns Hopkins University
Master’s Degree
1995 — 1997
UTHealth Houston
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Reproductive Biology
1998 — 2003
Skills
- Immunofluorescence
- Cell
- Immunoprecipitation
- In Vivo
- Molecular Biology
- Gene Regulation
- Cell Biology
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