Jonathan Darrow

Dr. Jonathan J. Darrow serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty member in the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His unique expertise spans law, medicine, and business, with degrees from Cornell (biological sciences/genetics), Duke (law), Boston College (business), and Harvard (research doctorate in pharmaceutical policy and LL.M.). Since joining Harvard in 2016, following his role as Senior Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, he has established himself as a leading authority on pharmaceutical regulation and policy. His influential research, published in prestigious journals including JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the British Medical Journal, has shaped understanding of FDA drug approval processes and pharmaceutical policy. A qualified patent attorney since 2002, his experience includes work at major law firms, international organizations (WHO, WTO, WIPO), and academic institutions. His contributions to pharmaceutical policy and regulation extend beyond academia through his widely-accessed HarvardX course on prescription drug regulation and his testimony before legislative committees on emerging healthcare technology issues.