Praveen Nair

Dr. Nair has extensive leadership experience, and an impressive track record of developing effective strategies to mobilize cross-functional teams toward success in drug discovery, translational research and biobanking. Prior to joining Immuneering, he co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of BioArkive, an innovative contract research group providing oncology research support and biosample management. Before BioArkive, Dr. Nair provided key scientific leadership and research support for multiple wholly-owned preclinical and drug discovery programs at Asellus Therapeutics. He also helped to build and expand ex vivo and in vitro research for multiple pharmaceutical clients at Molecular Response, where he coordinated the establishment and maintenance of diagnostic labs under CAP/CLIA environment, as well as IRB-approved tissue collections for translational studies. Dr. Nair earned his Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia, and finished his post-doctoral training at the Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago.