The leadership team at Navega Therapeutics has a history of research and development in the biomedical engineering industry. They have worked as researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Aztera, The Scripps Research Institute, and University of California, San Diego. They have also been a part of Purdue University, CSIC, and Harvard Medical School as visiting research fellows and postdoctoral associates. The team's education is in bioengineering, business administration, and management from UC San Diego, Harvard Business School, Rady School of Management, and The Johns Hopkins University.