Derek Klarin, MD

Dr. Derek Klarin is our Executive Director of Genomic Medicine & Data Science at Bitterroot Bio. Prior to joining Bitterroot, he was an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Staff Surgeon at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. His research applied genomic approaches to better understand the etiology of vascular disease and its associated risk factors, including lipids and thrombosis. Dr. Klarin’s current use of translational approaches builds on his experience and training leveraging bioinformatics and computational-based methods learned during a postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Dr. Klarin holds a BA in chemistry and biology from Cornell University. He earned his MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA before completing his general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a fellowship in vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida.