Meet our dedicated team of founders, advisors, researchers, scientists, and staff who are working together from across continents towards achieving our mission of affordable medicines for all.
Co-Founder and Advisor
Bernard Munos is known as one of the most influential people in biopharma today. He is a Senior Fellow at FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, and the founder of the…
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Co-Founder and Chair
His name means child of victory. He specializes in the impossible. He seeks to help creatively realize human rights for billions. He is an international human rights lawyer and…
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Co-Founder and Advisor
Mat Todd was born in Manchester, England. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Cambridge University in 1999, was a Wellcome Trust postdoc at The University of California,…
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Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Tanjore S. Balganesh was the Project Head of the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Unit of CSIR, the national laboratory system of India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian…
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Scientific Advisor
Kaveri Das received her PhD from the University of Calcutta in Molecular biology. She did her postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester, New York, USA, working on Rous…
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Chief Informatics Officer
Keith is a scientist and entrepreneur in the for profit and non profit biomedical space. He was a co-founder and the Executive Director of the i2b2/tranSMART Foundation, a 501c3…
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Scientist
Dr. M. V. Hosur obtained M.Sc degree in Physics from Karnataka University, Dharwad and Ph. D. degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. For…
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Scientific Director
Nibedita Rath is Scientific Director of the Open Source Pharma Foundation. She has more than eighteen years of scientific research experience both in industry and academia…
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Project Advisor
Peter studied Biochemistry and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Vienna and Karolinska Institute. He did his Ph.D. in Computational Biochemistry with Amedeo Caflisch at…
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Scientist
Dr. Shandil, Director, FNDR, served AstraZeneca India, Bangalore, for 20 years in various scientific and managerial roles at Infection – innovative medicines group. Shandil was…
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Scientific Advisor
Dr. Robert Gallo is the co-founder and director of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV). He is the eminent scientist who became world famous in 1984 when he co-discovered HIV as…
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G.N. Ramachandran Fellow
Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari is the Academy Professor of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, former Professor of Biophysics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,…
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Scientific Advisor
Dr. MS Jawahar, a physician and epidemiologist, graduated from the University of Madras in South India with undergraduate (MBBS) and post graduate (MD) medical degrees before…
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Principal Scientist
Dr. UCA Jaleel is a Principal Scientist at the OSPF-NIAS Drug Discovery Lab, NIAS IISc Campus Bangalore. He leads a team of drug discovery researchers who focus on various aspects…
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Project Advisor
Urmi Bajpai has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from University of Delhi, South Campus. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Science at Acharya Narendra Dev…
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Advisory Council
Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist. She is a board member of the OpenStack Foundation, board member of the Perl Foundation, and co-founder of the…
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Advisory Council
Amanda is an advisor, board member, writer and college lecturer on technology, marketing and open source issues. Most recently she was the Chief Marketing Officer and Vice…
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Advisory Council
Andrew Updegrove is a co-founder and partner of the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP. Since 1988 he has worked with over 180 consortia, accredited standards development…
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Advisory Council
Anil Koul, Ph.D. Vice President and Head, Global Public Health and Infectious Disease Drug Discovery, Johnson & Johnson; helped discover MDR TB drug bedaquiline. Ex-Director of…
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Advisory Council
Ariel is a research director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), co-founder and vice-director of the Centre for Research and…
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Advisory Council
Dr. Bruce Bloom is the Founder of Cures Within Reach. His journey to this position started in February 2002, when he became the Executive Director of Goldman Philanthropic…
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Advisory Council
John Wilbanks is the chief commons officer at Sage Bionetworks and a data commons expert and advocate. He has spent his career working to advance open content, open data and open…
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Executive Advisor
Most recently Nathon helped write the Innovation Agenda for Canada as the Special Innovation Advisor to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.
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Advisory Council
Dr. Vijay Chandru (Ph.D., MIT 1982) is an academic entrepreneur recognized as a ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum in 2006. His academic career in data and decision…
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Project Manager
Alina works with Open Source Pharma Foundation (OSPF) supporting multiple projects concentrating on communications, events, and operations. Specialized in cultivating innovative…
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General Administration Manager
Bhimsen Kulkarni is an outstanding professional with 18 years of experience in HR Management, General Administration/ Facility Management as well as 21 years in the Indian Air…
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Innovative Finance Lead
Prateek Garg is an entrepreneur and Innovative Finance Lead at Open Source Pharma Foundation. He works at the intersection of global health, biotechnology, and finance, developing…
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Project Manager
Wengsi is a graduate of McGill University, Montreal where she completed a BA in International Development and Urban Systems Geography. In 2016, she joined the team at the Open…
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