Dr. Vijay Kuchroo

Independent and Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board of Directors since 2015
Year of birth: 1955

Professional Experience

• Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology and Director of Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School
• Member, Broad Institute
• Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Co-Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, at the Brigham Research Institute, Boston
• Participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T cell differentiation
• Holds 25 patents
• Founded 5 different biotech companies including CoStim Pharmaceuticals and Tempero Pharmaceuticals
• Published over 325 original research papers in immunology
• Serves on scientific advisory boards and works in an advisory capacity to several companies, including Pfizer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline

Recognitions

• His paper on development of Th17 is one of the highest cited papers in immunology
• Named Distinguished Eberly Lecturer (2014)
• Recipient of Peter Doherty Award for Excellence in STEM (2014)
• Ranbaxy Award for Medical Research from the Ranbaxy Science Foundation (2011)
• Recipient of the Javits Neuroscience Award from the National Institutes of Health (2002)
• Recipient of Fred Z. Eager Research Prize and medal for his Ph.D. (1985)

Education

• Fogarty International Fellow at The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
• Ph.D., University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia