About Epernicus
Epernicus is a Boston-area company (Harvard and MIT roots) founded in 2008 by four passionate entrepreneurs with medical and software backgrounds. Our customers are world-class companies and non-profits doing cutting-edge medical research (Genzyme, the Broad Institute, GSK and Brigham and Women's Hospital, to name a few...). Our products will positively impact healthcare for hundreds of millions of people.
Learn more about Epernicus | Clinical Research Systems, designing, creating and operating online systems to increase the efficiency and quality of clinical research processes.
Learn more about Epernicus | Solutions, offering private social networking solutions to accelerate serendipity inside research-centric companies and organizations.
Learn more about Epernicus | Network, our publicly-accessible social networking platform for research scientists.
Management Team
Vivek Murthy
B.A., Biochemical Sciences, Harvard University; M.D. Yale School of Medicine;M.B.A., Yale School of Management
Vivek, our Chairman, is an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Vivek founded Epernicus based on the conviction that modern web technology could make researchers more effective. Outside his clinical work and role at Epernicus, Vivek is also president and co-founder of Doctors for America, a national organization of physicians that works to improve the healthcare system. Previously, Vivek co-founded VISIONS, a non-profit focused on HIV/AIDS youth education that expanded to 10 chapters in the U.S. and India at its peak. He also co-founded Swasthya, a community health partnership in rural India. During his training, Vivek conducted research in microbiology at Harvard Medical School and later worked on health services and public health research initiatives at the Yale School of Medicine.
Eric Silberstein
B.A., Computer Science, Harvard UniversityEric, our CEO, is passionate about building a great company by providing real and sustained value to our customers. Eric combines a background in technology and business with domain expertise in research processes acquired through building solutions for Epernicus customers. Prior to Epernicus, Eric was founder and Chairman of Idiom Technologies (acquired by SDL). Idiom's technology enables Fortune 500 companies, including five of the top ten web companies, to maintain multilingual web sites. Eric is one of the original winners of the MIT TR100 prize. Eric lives in Newton with his wife Frances and their two children.
Ezra Freedman
B.A., Mathematics, Columbia UniversityAs CTO, Ezra leads the technical charge at Epernicus. Prior to joining the team, he was VP of Technology for Schematic (acquired by WPP), a Los Angeles-based interactive agency that develops interface and technology solutions for the Web, television and mobile devices. Ezra leverages his 12+ years of experience in software development to ensure that Epernicus delivers exceptional service to its customers with applications that are intuitive, high-performing and reliable.
Cameron Snider
B.A., International Business, Wittenberg UniversityCameron, our VP of Business Development, has spent his career working and living in North America and Europe working with life science companies and organizations. Cameron is an expert on achieving adoption of professional networking technology within organizations. Prior to Epernicus, Cameron held a senior position as VP of Client Strategy at Imaginatik, a leading provider of innovation software. Outside of work Cameron enjoys coaching soccer and skiing with his wife Annegien and their two children.