Madhusudan V. Peshwa

Madhusudan V. Peshwa, Ph.D., serves as Chief Technology Officer, Cell Therapy, for Tessera Therapeutics. Dr. Peshwa joined Tessera in May 2021 and is responsible for developing the strategy and executing the operating plan encompassing the design, development, and manufacture of Tessera’s proprietary mobile gene element engineered cell therapy product portfolio.

Recently, in March 2020, Dr. Peshwa was inducted into the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), in recognition of contributions in Regenerative Medicine to advancements in the field of cell & gene therapies.

Prior to joining Tessera, Dr. Peshwa was CTO at Mana Therapeutics, an immunotherapy company focused on the development of allogeneic, multi-tumor-antigen-targeted, non-engineered, T-cell immunotherapies with additional oversight of Quality Assurance and Quality Control functions. Previously, Dr. Peshwa was CTO and Global Head of R&D for the Cell and Gene Therapies business at GE Healthcare (GEHC), with responsibilities that include GEHC’s CGT product and service portfolio to enable and accelerate the development of robust, scalable, industrialized manufacturing and delivery of cell and gene therapies. Prior to these roles, Dr. Peshwa held various executive positions at MaxCyte, Inc., NewNeural LLC, and Dendreon Corporation. At MaxCyte, as CSO and EVP, Cellular Therapies, Dr. Peshwa was responsible for leading the development and commercialization of ex vivo cell loading platform technology.