Betsy Myers is Program Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, where she oversees a research portfolio of approximately $80 million in active grants.
Before joining the Foundation, Betsy spent two decades as a researcher in academic medical centers. She received a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She held academic appointments as Instructor and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School from 1990-1998 and Associate Professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University from 1999-2005, where she conducted research on the pathogenesis of osteoporosis.
Betsy joined the foundation in 2005 and was appointed Program Director for Medical Research in 2010. She is on the Board of Directors of the Health Research Alliance (HRA) and is a member of the Institute of Medicine Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation and the HRA-FDA Joint Planning Committee for the New Frontiers in Science Program. She has recently served on the HRA Meeting Program Committee; the Working Group on Ethics Guidelines for Global Health Training; Grants in the Shared HRA Portfolio Oversight Committee; and the International and Cooperative Projects Study Section for the NIH Fogarty International Center.