Rakesh Dixit

Rakesh Dixit is an accomplished executive, inventor, and scientist with over 30 years of success with top biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Medimmune – AstraZeneca. Rakesh was selected by his biopharmaceutical peers as the 100 Most Inspiring People in the Pharmaceutical Industry by PharmaVOICE in 2015. From 2006 to 2019, Rakesh was a Global Vice President of the Biologics R&D at Medimmune – AstraZeneca, where he was a pivotal contributor to the approval of Imfinzi (anti-PD-L1 mAb) for the treatment of lung and bladder cancer, Fasenra (anti-IL-5R afucsolytated mAb) for asthma, brodalumab (anti-IL-17) in collaboration with Amgen for psoriasis and moxetumomab (anti-CD22-PEA immunotoxin) for hairy cell leukemia. His areas of expertise include discovery, early and late preclinical development, safety assessment, DMPK and translational sciences of small molecule drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapy products. Rakesh is a key opinion leader in the ADC world and recently received World ADC’s highly prestigious award for “Long Standing Contributions to the ADCs”.