Asit Parikh

Dr. Parikh, M.D., Ph.D., is the President and Chief Executive Officer of MOMA Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company discovering the next generation of precision medicines by targeting molecular machines that underlie human disease.

Previously, Dr. Parikh served as senior vice president and head of the Gastrointestinal Therapeutic Area at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Parikh earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and his M.D. from Vanderbilt University, and was a resident in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed subspecialty training in gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, with postdoctoral work in cancer biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also remains actively engaged in the practice of gastroenterology and internal medicine as a part-time coverage staff physician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.