Saurabh Saha is an American biotech entrepreneur.[1]

Saurabh Saha
NationalityAmerican
EducationBSc, MSc, MD, and PhD
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University
University of Oxford
OccupationCancer drug discovery
Known forTranslational medicine
Cancer biosurgery

Education

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Saha received his undergraduate degree in biology from the California Institute of Technology.[2] He also attended both Harvard Business School and Oxford University.[3] Saha trained under Bert Vogelstein during his studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,[4] where he received both an MD and a PhD in cancer genetics.[5]

Career

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After finishing graduate school, Saha joined the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in their Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products Practice in New York City.[6] In 2005, he became the Director of the New Indications Discovery Unit at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5] Between 2008 and 2015, Saha served as the President of BioMed Valley Discoveries[7] [3] Saha serves as a venture partner for the life sciences venture capital firm, Atlas Venture and also served as the Chief Medical Officer for its portfolio company, Synlogic.[8]

In 2016, Saha was appointed as President and CEO of Delinia, a biotech company focused on developing novel therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases such as lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and others.[9] [10] [11]

Saha has published in periodicals where he and his colleagues reported translational research and development discoveries in cancer research.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] He is also on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Clinical Oncology,[19] Journal of Translational Medicine,[20] and Cancer Biology & Therapy.[21]

References

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  1. ^ "Executive Profile". Bloomberg.
  2. ^ "Commencement" (PDF). Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Saurabh Saha". Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  4. ^ Alice Park (August 13, 2014). "Treating Cancer With Bacteria Shows Real Promise". Time Magazine. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Saurabh Saha". Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  6. ^ "Biomed Valley Discoveries". Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  7. ^ Mitch Leslie (August 13, 2014). "Bacteria shrink tumors in humans, dogs". Science Magazine. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  8. ^ Fidler, Ben (September 14, 2016). "Sofinnova, Atlas Put $35M Into Delinia to Tackle Autoimmune Diseases". Xconomy.
  9. ^ Carroll, John (September 14, 2016). "Atlas Partner Saha Takes the Helm at Delinia, Looking to Disrupt Autoimmune R&D". Endpoints News.
  10. ^ Adams, Ben (January 26, 2017). "Celgene Splashes Out $300M on Delinia Autoimmune Biotech Buy". FierceBiotech.
  11. ^ Gormley, Brian (January 26, 2017). "Celgene to Pay Up to $775 Million to Buy Biotech Startup Delinia". The Wall Street Journal.
  12. ^ Saha S; Sparks AB; Rago C; Akmaev V; Wang CJ; Vogelstein B; Kinzler KW; Velculescu VE (May 2002). "Using the transcriptome to annotate the genome". Nature Biotechnology. 20 (5): 508–12. doi:10.1038/nbt0502-508. PMID 11981567. S2CID 12709815.
  13. ^ Christoph Lengauer; Luis A. Diaz, Jr & Saurabh Saha (May 2005). "Outlook: Cancer drug discovery through collaboration". Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 4 (5): 375–380. doi:10.1038/nrd1722. PMID 15864266. S2CID 1720653.
  14. ^ Saurabh Saha; et al. (October 11, 2001). "A Phosphatase Associated with Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer". Science. 294 (5545): 1343–1346. doi:10.1126/science.1065817. PMID 11598267. S2CID 42104960. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  15. ^ Bardelli, Alberto; Parsons, D. Williams; Silliman, Natalie; Ptak, Janine; Szabo, Steve; Saha, Saurabh; Markowitz, Sanford; Willson, James K. V.; Parmigiani, Giovanni; Kinzler, Kenneth W.; Vogelstein, Bert; Velculescu, Victor E. (May 2003). "Mutational Analysis of the Tyrosine Kinome in Colorectal Cancers". Science. 300 (5621): 949. doi:10.1126/science.1082596. PMID 12738854. S2CID 85934154.
  16. ^ Roberts, Nicholas J.; et al. (Aug 2014). "Intratumoral injection of Clostridium novyi-NT spores induces antitumor responses". Science Translational Medicine. 6 (249). doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3008982. PMC 4399712. PMID 25122639.
  17. ^ Bardelli, Alberto; Parsons, D. Williams; Silliman, Natalie; Ptak, Janine; Szabo, Steve; Saha, Saurabh; Markowitz, Sanford; Willson, James K. V.; Parmigiani, Giovanni; Kinzler, Kenneth W.; Vogelstein, Bert; Velculescu, Victor E. (9 May 2003). "Mutational Analysis of the Tyrosine Kinome in Colorectal Cancers". Science. 300 (5621): 949. doi:10.1126/science.1082596. PMID 12738854. S2CID 85934154.
  18. ^ Roberts, Nicholas J.; Zhang, Linping; Janku, Filip; Collins, Amanda; Bai, Ren-Yuan; Staedtke, Verena; Rusk, Anthony W.; Tung, David; Miller, Maria; Roix, Jeffrey; Khanna, Kristen V.; Murthy, Ravi; Benjamin, Robert S.; Helgason, Thorunn; Szvalb, Ariel D.; Bird, Justin E.; Roy-Chowdhuri, Sinchita; Zhang, Halle H.; Qiao, Yuan; Karim, Baktiar; McDaniel, Jennifer; Elpiner, Amanda; Sahora, Alexandra; Lachowicz, Joshua; Phillips, Brenda; Turner, Avenelle; Klein, Mary K.; Post, Gerald; Diaz, Luis A.; Riggins, Gregory J.; Papadopoulos, Nickolas; Kinzler, Kenneth W.; Vogelstein, Bert; Bettegowda, Chetan; Huso, David L.; Varterasian, Mary; Saha, Saurabh; Zhou, Shibin (13 August 2014). "Intratumoral injection of Clostridium novyi-NT spores induces antitumor responses". Science Translational Medicine. 6 (249): 249ra111. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3008982. PMC 4399712. PMID 25122639.
  19. ^ "Editorial board". Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  20. ^ "Editorial board". Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  21. ^ "Editorial board". Retrieved September 15, 2014.