BRI Leadership
Jacqueline Slavik, PhD
Executive Director, Biomedical Research Institute
Dr. Jacqueline Slavik is the executive director of the Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Slavik received her Masters in Medical Science from Harvard University in 1994, followed by her PhD in Immunology from Harvard in 1998. Dr. Slavik did her postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Neurologic Diseases at BWH, and was promoted to Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School in 2001. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society supported Dr. Slavik’s post-doctoral work and selected her as a Boehringer Ingelheim Fellow in 2001. Dr. Slavik became a senior program manager at the BRI in 2006 and was promoted later that year to her current leadership role. Her research interests include T lymphocytes and T lymphocyte signaling and their involvement in cancer and autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis.