Balu Balasubramanian

Dr. Balu Balasubramanian has over 26 years of experience in drug discovery research and management. After starting his career as a medicinal chemist with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), he assumed positions of increasing responsibilities while leading programs in cardiovascular, metabolic diseases, oncology, immunology/inflammation, infectious diseases, and neuroscience. Balu led the Oncology BMS-Research Triangle Park collaboration while responsible for External R&D innovation activities at BMS and became the Managing Director of BMS-BIOCON R&D Center (BBRC). In this role, Balu led the company to expand its capability as an integrated research and early clinical development center. Balu was instrumental in creating the Translational Medicine Team with BBRC/BMS and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center, Bangalore. As a result, BBRC delivered several clinical candidates from India. During this period, Balu established the academic-industry partnership programs (PPP) in India to increase drug discovery awareness and the talent pool. Under his leadership at BMS, several candidates were taken from preclinical development, through the clinic to new drug application filings. He has authored and co-authored over 75 scientific publications, patents and presentations. Balu holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University.