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Swami Subramaniam, MD, PhD
CEO - Ignite LSF
Swami is a physician-scientist who has trained both as a clinical pharmacologist (MD, PGI-Chandigarh) and as a molecular neuropharmacologist (PhD - University of Pennsylvania). As a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda (Maryland, USA) he studied the modulation of excitatory receptors in the brain using electrophysiological techniques. After his return to India Swami has worked in drug discovery, drug development, and business development in the biopharmaceutical industry for over twenty years. He led the filing of the first IND by an Indian company for a novel topoisomerase inhibiting anticancer drug and then led the execution of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 studies. He was responsible for giving shape and initial impetus to Dr Reddy’s foray into providing pharmaceutical services. In 2002 he led the founding of Aurigene Discovery Technologies, a discovery start-up in Bengaluru. He has worked for Merck and Co., Inc. as a licensing and business development lead for the South and South-East Asia regions in which role he was responsible for managing multiple discovery partnerships between Merck and Indian companies. In his last corporate position he was Head–R&D for Abbott Nutrition in India.
He won a Gurukul Chevening Fellowship in 1999 for leadership excellence at the London School of Economics. He has also trained in executive programs at Stanford GSB, IIM Ahmedabad and Indian School of Business.
Swami has authored two books - “Mastering Sleep” and “Healing Hands”.