Nisit Khandelwal

Nisit is the scientific co-founder of iOmx and serves as its Senior Vice-President, Research. Prior to joining iOmx, Nisit was PI for a joint research project between the German Cancer Research Center and Bayer Health Care from 2014-2016. He is a research-driven entrepreneur with a strong focus on target discovery and early-stage drug development in the field of cancer immunotherapy. He is the lead inventor on a portfolio of patents and author of high-impact scientific publications. Nisit completed his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology in India and obtained his Masters degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Edinburgh in U.K. In 2011, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckhove at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany as a Helmholtz Scholar for his doctoral thesis on high-throughput identification of novel immune-checkpoint molecules on tumors.