John Darcy, MS '07, MA '10, PhD '14
Medical Director
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
John Darcy is a triple graduate degree recipient of Binghamton University (MS '07, MA '10, PhD '14) in biomedical and biological anthropology with research interests in infectious and chronic diseases in human populations. His 2014 dissertation, "Quaternary Lyme Disease: Symptomatology, Epidemiology and Anthropology of an Emerging Disease," investigated chronic aspects of Lyme disease in a cohort of patients mostly concentrated in New York and Pennsylvania. He also participated in animal vaccine research with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Biology during his doctoral training.
Darcy has more than 15 years of experience working in the biopharmaceutical industry and is employed in the U.S. Clinical Development and Medical Affairs branch of the Immunology, Hepatology and Dermatology Division at Novartis. He is currently a medical director in dermatology, focusing on hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a difficult to treat life-long skin disease characterized by inflammation, boils, infection and scarring.
Darcy also holds an undergraduate degree from Penn State University and has many personal and professional ties to the Binghamton area and Binghamton University. He worked as a staff assistant in the Dean's Office of the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science and served as a volunteer at both United Health Services' Department of Pathology and the Garabed A. Fattal Community Free Clinic of the Binghamton Clinical Campus of Upstate Medical University.
