DirectorDr. G. Sridhar Prasad
Dr. G. Sridhar Prasad
G. Sridhar Prasad serves as a member of our board of directors. Dr. Prasad joined Syrrx, Inc., a drug discovery company, in 2001, leading crystallography efforts that led to the discovery of Nesina®, a drug to treat type 2 diabetes. At Merck & Co. Inc., he was a lead crystallographer on key drug discovery programs, including those for schizophrenia, oncology and HIV-1 AIDS.
Dr. Prasad co-founded Plex Pharmaceuticals in 2009, which was acquired by Collidion, Inc. in 2017, and served as its Chief Scientific Officer from 2009 to 2022. Dr. Prasad is the founder and Principal Consultant of Nnavata LLC. Prior to founding Nnavata, he was the Director and Head of Protein Science at Ventus Therapeutics, Waltham, MA, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company deploying leading-edge structural biology and unique computational chemistry tools to develop a robust pipeline of novel medicines in immunology, inflammation, and neurology.
Dr. Prasad has raised nearly $10 million in non-dilutive funding from NIH and Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Dr. Prasad is a co-inventor on thirteen U.S./ International issued patents and published 45 peer-reviewed research articles and textbook chapters.
He also serves on the editorial boards of Organic & Medicinal Chemistry International Journal and Chemical Sciences Journal, Omics Publications. Dr. Prasad received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota and the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.
Dr. Prasad co-founded Plex Pharmaceuticals in 2009, which was acquired by Collidion, Inc. in 2017, and served as its Chief Scientific Officer from 2009 to 2022. Dr. Prasad is the founder and Principal Consultant of Nnavata LLC. Prior to founding Nnavata, he was the Director and Head of Protein Science at Ventus Therapeutics, Waltham, MA, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company deploying leading-edge structural biology and unique computational chemistry tools to develop a robust pipeline of novel medicines in immunology, inflammation, and neurology.
Dr. Prasad has raised nearly $10 million in non-dilutive funding from NIH and Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Dr. Prasad is a co-inventor on thirteen U.S./ International issued patents and published 45 peer-reviewed research articles and textbook chapters.
He also serves on the editorial boards of Organic & Medicinal Chemistry International Journal and Chemical Sciences Journal, Omics Publications. Dr. Prasad received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota and the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.