Dr. Vijay Kuchroo
Independent and Non-Executive Director
Member of the Board of Directors since 2015
Year of birth: 1955
Professional Experience
- Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology and Director of Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School
- Member, Broad Institute
- Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Co-Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, at the Brigham Research Institute, Boston
- Participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T cell differentiation
- Holds 25 patents
- Founded 5 different biotech companies including CoStim Pharmaceuticals and Tempero Pharmaceuticals
- Published over 325 original research papers in immunology
- Serves on scientific advisory boards and works in an advisory capacity to several companies, including Pfizer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline
Recognitions
- His paper on development of Th17 is one of the highest cited papers in immunology
- Named Distinguished Eberly Lecturer (2014)
- Recipient of Peter Doherty Award for Excellence in STEM (2014)
- Ranbaxy Award for Medical Research from the Ranbaxy Science Foundation (2011)
- Recipient of the Javits Neuroscience Award from the National Institutes of Health (2002)
- Recipient of Fred Z. Eager Research Prize and medal for his Ph.D. (1985)
Education
- Fogarty International Fellow at The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- Ph.D., University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
