Glen de Vries
American businessman (1972–2021)
Glen de Vries (June 29, 1972 – November 11, 2021) was an American entrepreneur in the field of medical science and pharmacology. He was the co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata Solutions.2
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Born Jun 29, 1972, died Nov 11, 2021.1
About
In October 2021, de Vries flew into space on Blue Origin NS-18 in a suborbital flight.
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Companies
Early life and education
De Vries grew up in New York and showed a passion for computers and science at a young age. In middle school, he founded a rocket club in the science lab. He attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Manhattan and the Bronx, NY. His mother encouraged him to learn ballroom dancing in high school, and he danced competitively with her. De Vries attended Carnegie Mellon University and graduated in 1994. He taught himself to speak Japanese.
De Vries received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and genetics from Carnegie Mellon University, worked as a research scientist at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and studied computer science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematics.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson, molecular biologist, astronaut.7
- 2021Deputy chairperson, Dassault Systèmes5 6
- 2019 to 2021Chief executive officer, MEDIDATA4 5
- 2017 to 2021Trustee, Carnegie Mellon University4 5
- 1999 to 2019President, founder, MEDIDATA4 5
- 1996 to 1997Project director, Columbia University Irving Medical Center4 5
- 1994 to 1996Research associate, Columbia University4 5
- 1991 to 1993Research assistant, New York University4 5
In 1994, Glen de Vries and Ed Ikeguchi created OceanTek, a startup that developed Web applications for conducting clinical trials. In 1999, along with Tarek Sherif, de Vries and Ed Ikeguchi founded Medidata Solutions to provide online systems for designing and running clinical trials. Medidata made its IPO on the Nasdaq Stock Market on June 25, 2009.
In 2013, he endowed the first student fellowship of NYU Center for Data Science, the Glen de Vries Permanent Fellowship Fund.
De Vries sold Medidata to Dassault Systèmes in 2019 for $5.8 billion.
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Published work
de Vries, Glen; Blachman, Jeremy (2020). The patient equation: the data-driven future of precision medicine and the business of health care. New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 978-1119622147.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataGlen de Vries on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaGlen de Vries on Wikipedia
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- 4Wikidataeducation, as reported
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- 11WikidataGlen de Vries: X, on Wikidata
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- 14WikidataGlen de Vries: IMDb, on Wikidata
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