Joe Franklin is an attorney at Verily Life Sciences, where he works on legal, regulatory, and policy components of Verily’s clinical evidence generation program. Before joining Verily, Joe held a variety of positions at FDA, including as senior advisor on data and evidence initiatives. Joe built and led the biosimilars policy staff in the Office of New Drugs and served as an attorney in the chief counsel’s office for multiple periods during his career at FDA—including during COVID-19, when he advised FDA on emergency use authorizations and supported the U.S. government’s international vaccine donations. Joe has a PhD in cell biology from his early career as a bench scientist.