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| Dr. USHA ARUNACHALAM |
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Dr. Usha Arunachalam brings over 15 years of business experience, primarily with early-staged biotechnology companies. Most recently, Dr. Arunachalam led the business development efforts of FivePrime Therapeutics, a privately held early-stage biotechnology company. At Fiveprime she was an integral member of the executive team and was instrumental in raising more than $ 100 MM in near term investments for collaborative research from strategic partners.
Prior to joining FivePrime, she served as Vice President, Business Development at Intrabiotics and served as a member of the executive team. Prior to joining Intrabiotics, Dr. Arunachalam was Sr. Director of Business Development at Kosan Biosciences, where she was responsible for all in- and out-licensing and business development activities for multiple projects.
Among her many accomplishments at Kosan Biosciences, Dr. Arunachalam was instrumental in identifying, initiating, structuring and negotiating a major agreement with Roche to globally co-develop and co-commercialize an anti-cancer drug candidate then in Phase I clinical trials. Further, at Kosan she also was responsible for in-licensing the geladanamysin portfolio, which resulted in the successful acquisition of the company by a pharmaceutical company.
Dr. Arunachalam received her Ph.D in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science and received a pre-doctoral fellowship from University of Michigan to work on her thesis. She received her MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management. |
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* Prof. M.K. SUNDERESAN - Physicist, Carlton University, Canada (Research and Development) |
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* Prof. M.D. GUPTE - Director, Institute of Seremology Pvt Ltd, Pune, India (Public Health and Epidemiology) |
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* Kris V. KRISHNAN – President and CEO of IYER Global Solutions (Strategy) |
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* Prof. M.N. PANINI - Centre for Social Systems,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Developmental and Industrial Sociology) |
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* Mr. PARI SIVAKUMAR - HSBC GIT, Chicago, USA (Management) |
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* Mr. VIJAYKUMAR PANNIKAR -Team Leader, WHO nGlobal Leprosy Programme, WHO, SEARO, New Delhi (Health and Medicine ) |
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* Mr. H.C. RAVINDRANATH - Advocate, Bangalore, India (Environment) |
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* Mr. V. RAVISHANKAR - Anthropologist, Boston, USA (Culture and Market ) |
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