Piyush Patel

Piyush Patel has served as our Chief Development Officer since January 2021 and brings over 29 years of drug development experience including all aspects of nonclinical and product development of small molecules. Prior to joining Tyra, Piyush was the Chief Scientific Officer at CinRx Pharma, LLC where he oversaw the development of multiple small molecule programs from drug candidate selection to IND submission. Prior to CinRx he was a Senior Director at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd responsible for global formulation development, clinical manufacture, process development/Pharmaceutical Operations and CMC documentation groups. He has authored several scientific publications and is a co-inventor on multiple patents. Piyush holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Temple University.