Stephen H. Friend is co-founder and director of Sage Bionetworks.
Friend co-founded Rosetta Inpharmatics with Leland H. Hartwell and Leroy Hood in 1996.
[4] Much of his research has focused on cancer.
[5] Friend has also held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, his Ph.D. in biochemistry and his M.D.