Bikash Verma

Dr. Bikash Verma is the founder and CEO of Med Therapy, a Boston based manufacturer of cell & gene products. He has been Head of Medical Affairs at Celyad, and before that CMO at Aurora Biopharma. He was Medical Director at GSK and Novartis, during which he managed over twenty immunology-related trials encompassing over ten thousand subjects across more than a hundred clinical trial sites in US and abroad and leading to successful licensure of several products. Prior to joining the biotech industry, he worked at Harvard Medical School as Medical Director, faculty member and scientist; and in public health and clinical care as an Epidemiologist in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Centers of Disease Control (CDC) surveillance projects and at the International Health Organization as its Chief Medical Officer. Dr Verma holds an M.D., D.V.M., M.S. and M.VSc degrees and significant post-doctoral training in a number of areas.