Joseph Hedrick

Joseph (Joe) Hedrick is the Executive Director of the Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Consortium at Critical Path Institute (C-Path). A public-private partnership, the T1D consortium membership is composed of industry and foundation members, as well as academic partners and advisors from the NIH. C-Path has aggregated T1D clinical data from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, as well as academic and industry members, and works with global regulators to achieve broad regulatory objectives that will advance therapies for T1D treatment and prevention. Prior to joining C-Path, Joe was the Venture Leader for Janssen’s T1D program. He was also a Senior Director for Cure and Prevent Therapies at JDRF and led new drug target discovery efforts at Merck and Schering-Plough. The author of more than fifty peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, and book chapters, he is also an inventor on more than twenty patents. Joe earned his doctorate degree at the University of California-San Diego and San Diego State University.