Keynote: HealthTech
Parth Chakrabarti
MBA
Senior Director, Transactions at Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Parth is Senior Director of Transactions at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Boston. During his 15 years in the healthcare industry, Parth has been passionate about innovation in science and in business/transaction models.
Before joining Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Parth was a Director at Baxter BioScience where he helped build two new business units focused on oncology and specialty immunology entirely through licensing and external partnerships. Prior to that, he led the establishment of 'Innovation Cell' at Becton Dickinson & Co. that successfully established new growth strategy for its Medical Surgical Systems business unit. He and his team then successfully executed the strategy through a combination of acquisitions and partnership agreements to build a new business franchise. Before Becton Dickinson, Parth was an Investment manager at VenturEast Capital, one of the few pure-play healthcare focused venture funds based in India that specialize in cross-border company creation through early stage equity investment.
Before transitioning to the business side of healthcare, Parth spent 10 years as a scientist, most of it at Amgen Inc. working on variety of targets likes G-protein coupled receptor agonists and P-38 Kinase inhibitors as well as in a range of therapeutic areas like neuropathic pain, breast cancer & Alzheimer's disease. His research contributed to advancement of three candidates to clinical development.
Parth is an inventor in 23 granted patents and has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed papers that have garnered more than 450 citations. He has a Master's degree in Healthcare Management from Harvard University, MBA from ISB, M. Pharm. (Medicinal Chemistry) from Indian Institute of Technology and a B. Pharm. from Nagpur University.
