Anirvan Ghosh
Anirvan Ghosh is Chief Executive Officer of UNITY Biotechnology, a clinical-stage company focused on developing medicines to slow age-associated diseases. Prior to this, he led a team of 350 scientists and clinicians at Biogen. His team was responsible for preclinical, and clinical Phase 1 and Phase 2 studies in all of the disease areas at Biogen. Ghosh was also involved in expanding the portfolio through key partnerships, including acquisition of early-stage assets in Alzheimer’s Disease, Schizophrenia, and Ophthalmology, and several multi-asset platform collaborations.
Anirvan Ghosh Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Chief Executive Officer
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Stephen Kuffler Professor and Chair, Neurobiology Section
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Chair, Neurobiology Section
Academic History
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PhD in Neuroscience
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BA in Physics
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- Ghosh was born in Bloomington, Indiana.
- His family moved to India and grew up in the city of Kanpur.
- He lived his life in an academic setting, being heavily influenced by the work of his parents and their interest in traveling and showing their children various sites.
- He stayed in the Indian educational system until he was 17 years old.
- While transitioning into the American educational system, he undertook undergraduate research projects in the laboratories of Jack Beacham, Thomas Tombrello, and Jerome Pine.
- He was afforded the opportunity to work in Thomas Reese's lab at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, a place at which he had a defining moment during a neurobiology course.
- He studied under Carla J. Shatz while at Stanford University, researching brain-cell development.
- He did his postdoctoral research with Michael Greenberg at Harvard Medical School in the field of molecular neurobiology, focusing on experiential cortical development in the brain.
PUBLICATIONS
- The impact of his scientific contributions is demonstrated in more than 100 scientific publications in top-tier journals, including Science and Nature.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- 1990 to 1991 - Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 1991 to 1994 - Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1994 to 1995 - Medical Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1995 to 1997 - Damon Runyon Scholar Award
- 1996 to 1998 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- 1996 to 1999 - EJLB Foundation Scholar Research Award
- 1996 to 1999 - Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
- 1997 to 2001 - Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences Grant
- 1997 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- 2000 - Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
- 2003 - Stephen Kuffler Professorship, University of California San Diego
- 2016 - John Merck Scholar Award