Jack Barger
Senior Director of Research Operations Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Jack Barger, Senior Director Research Operations Vertex Pharmacueticals, has been in BioTech for the past 21 years, all at the Vertex San Diego research site. In that time he has had a verity of rolls including developing custom engineering solutions, deploying laboratory automation, and his current role in Research Operations of ‘helping scientists have more time to do science’. The commonality amongst the roles is developing a deep understanding of how things really work in the lab. Jack has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from UCSD.
Seminars
Friday 22nd August 2025
Advancing Cold Storage Maintenance & Monitoring to Minimize Scientific Disruption
10:45 am
- Discussing constraints on cold storage implementation to understand where improvements should be made
- Assessing on-site cold storage including set up, redundancy, and response
- Assessing off-site cold storage including enablement and justification
