Kaushik Ghosal, PhD
Business Development Advisor
Kaushik Ghosal is a successful entrepreneur, innovator and business development executive with broad expertise in bio-pharma industry in a variety of R&D and BD roles across different verticals in technology management, corporate expansion, strategic leadership and capital growth.
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Prior to becoming the Founder and CEO of BioExcel, Kaushik was the Director of Business Development at BioMotiv, the for-profit arm of The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development, a $360 million US and UK drug development initiative focused on accelerating therapeutic drug development. During his tenure, BioMotiv expanded its portfolio from 3 to 13 start-ups, established strategic partnerships with Biogen, Arix Bioscience and Charles River Laboratories, and raised more than $7 million in non-dilutive capital for its portfolio companies from NIH and disease-focused foundations.
Before BioMotiv, Kaushik was the Director of R&D at ReXceptor Inc, a clinical stage biotech company where he led preclinical and clinical development, establishing strategic partnerships with, and raised significant non-dilutive funding towards growth capital.
Kaushik received an MS in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Miami University and completed his postdoctoral training in Neuroscience from the Cleveland Clinic.
