Rathnam Chaguturu's Biography

Rathnam Chaguturu, Founder and CEO/Senior Director, SRI International

Rathnam Chaguturu is the Founder & CEO of iDDPartners, a nonprofit think-tank focused on pharmaceutical innovation. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in academia and industry, managing new lead discovery projects and forging collaborative partnerships with academia, disease foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies.. He is the Founding President of the International Chemical Biology Society, a Founding Member of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening. He serves on several editorial- and scientific advisory boards, recipient of several awards, and is a sought-after speaker at major national and international conferences, passionately advocating the virtues of collaborative partnerships in addressing the pharmaceutical innovation crisis. ‘Collaborative Innovation in Drug Discovery: Strategies for Public and Private Partnerships,’ edited by Rathnam with the Foreword by Ferid Murad, the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, has just been published by Wiley.