Ram Aiyar

Ram has spent his career in healthcare with two years of healthcare investment experience, over five years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development, and three years of commercial and entrepreneurial experience. He started his career at Johnson & Johnson in the oncology and immunology team where he contributed to the identification and development of many novel large molecular compounds. He later moved his focus to developing and identifying stratified medicine solutions for pulmonary and autoimmune diseases as part of the immunology biomarkers team. Ram was a recipient of the Philip B. Hofmann award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in the field of Research and Development,’ the most prestigious award for a scientist at J&J. Ram continued his career as an investment banking intern at J.P. Morgan (London) in the Healthcare Advisory group and then became and investment professional at Sofinnova Partners, a healthcare venture capital firm based in Paris where he was responsible for identifying, building and supporting biotech and medtech start-ups. He is currently entrepreneur-in-residence at BioHealth Innovation and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at NIH.