Currently, Alan B. Sachs occupies the position of Chief Medical Officer at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. In the past he occupied the position of Director-Clinical Genomics at Merck & Co., Inc. Vice President-Molecular Profiling at Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC and VP-Exploratory & Translational Sciences at Merck Research Laboratories Massachusetts LLC (both are subsidiaries of Merck & Co., Inc.), Chief Scientific Officer at Life Technologies Corp., Principal at Sirna Therapeutics, Inc., Member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Fellow at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Alan B. Sachs received an undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a doctorate from Stanford University School of Medicine and a doctorate from Stanford University.