Andrea Houghton, Ph.D., is Vice President, Global Head of Biology of Neuroscience at Janssen Research & Development LLC, one of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical companies. Andrea has a proven track record in drug discovery.
Prior to joining Janssen R&D, she was Associate Vice President of Quantitative Biosciences at Merck and Co. Inc. Andrea spent much of her career at Merck. She joined the MSD Research Laboratories (formerly Organon Laboratories in Scotland) in 1999 and, during the next 10 years, held roles of increasing responsibility. She transitioned to Merck and Co. in the United States in 2010 as Executive Director of the Pain & Migraine Department before becoming Executive Director of the Discovery Pharmacology Department.
Andrea received her doctorate in Physiology from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (UK). She completed two post-doctoral fellowships – one in the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch and a second in the Department of Physiology at the University of Bristol, UK.