Rajiv Gangurde

Rajiv Gangurde, Ph.D., Vice President of Technical Operations for Cell and Gene Therapy at Parexel, has over 18 years of industry experience in biopharmaceutical development, harnessed in the biotechnology hub of Massachusetts, USA. Most recently, Rajiv served as Chief Technology Officer at SparingVision, an ocular gene therapy company, where he led all activities related to bioprocess and analytical development, manufacturing, and quality. Before SparingVision, Rajiv was Senior Director and Head of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) at Voyager Therapeutics. In this role, he was responsible for CMC strategy and management of the company’s entire gene therapy portfolio. Prior to Voyager, Rajiv was Director of Bioprocess Development and Manufacturing at Genocea Biosciences, where he led upstream and downstream process development and biochemistry groups for early- and late-stage recombinant-protein-based therapeutic vaccines. Prior to Genocea, Rajiv served as Head of Protein Sciences at LakePharma, leading therapeutic protein production efforts for pre-clinical studies. Rajiv obtained his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Mumbai University in India and did postdoctoral research at the Department of Biochemistry at the New Jersey Medical School, and at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Rajiv is based in Massachusetts, USA.