Senior Scientist
Merck & Co., Inc.
Janita Patwardhan Hogan is a Senior Scientist at Merck in the Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics group. While growing up, she realized that the world made sense when put in terms of mathematics and statistics. Because of that, she pursued a Ph.D. in applied mathematics with a focus on biological modeling. After graduation, she transitioned from the academic realm of investigating a disease to the pharmaceutical world of drug discovery and development, with the end goal of having an impact on patients’ lives. In her current role, she utilizes her modeling skills to provide insight from preclinical and clinical data to drive decision making for neuroscience drugs at Merck. She is driven by the interpretations that can be made from modeling and is looking to continue applying her computational and mathematical skill set to impact lives.