Prior to Axcella, Dr. Aradhye spent 20 years in various leadership roles in development and medical affairs at Novartis Pharmaceuticals and its global affiliates. Dr. Aradhye served as Novartis’ global head of medical affairs and chief medical officer – pharmaceuticals, and was a member of the global pharmaceuticals executive team. His leadership covered teams working in diverse disease areas including cardiometabolic, respiratory, immunology, neuroscience and ophthalmology, and included direct operational oversight of Novartis’ global medical affairs team. Prior to this role, Dr. Aradhye served as the development head for Novartis’ neuroscience portfolio with innovative programs in multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, migraine, neuropathic pain and muscle disease.
Prior to joining the life science industry, Dr. Aradhye was an attending physician, assistant professor of medicine and a transplant nephrologist at the University of Pennsylvania for a large tertiary-care, multi-organ transplant program performing more than 150 renal transplants, 100 liver transplants and 25 kidney-pancreas transplants per year. He also provided expert consultation for cases with a wide variety of renal and electrolyte disorders and was co-investigator for industry-sponsored clinical trials. Dr. Aradhye also served as an attending nephrologist and instructor in medicine at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center.
Dr. Aradhye received his medical education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India, and trained in Internal Medicine at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass. and in Nephrology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York.
About Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRNA) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing medicines that are designed to leverage ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) to selectively silence genes that cause or contribute to disease. Using our proprietary RNAi technology platform called GalXC™, Dicerna is committed to developing RNAi-based therapies with the potential to treat both rare and more prevalent diseases. By silencing disease-causing genes, Dicerna’s GalXC platform has the potential to address conditions that are difficult to treat with other modalities. Initially focused on hepatocytes, Dicerna has continued to innovate and is exploring new applications of its RNAi technology beyond the liver, targeting additional tissues and enabling new therapeutic applications. In addition to our own pipeline of core discovery and clinical candidates, Dicerna has established collaborative relationships with some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, including Novo Nordisk A/S, Roche, Eli Lilly and Company, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Between Dicerna and our collaborative partners, we currently have more than 20 active discovery, preclinical or clinical programs focused on rare, cardiometabolic, viral, chronic liver and complement-mediated diseases, as well as neurodegeneration and pain. At Dicerna, our mission is to interfere – to silence genes, to fight disease, to restore heath. For more information, please visit www.dicerna.com.
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