Rahul Singhvi

Dr. Singhvi is an Operating Partner at Flagship Pioneering, a unique Boston-based life sciences innovation firm. At Flagship Pioneering, Dr. Singhvi is responsible for operating young start-up companies launched from Flagship’s innovation foundry, Flagship Labs.

Prior to Flagship, Dr. Singhvi was the Chief Operating Officer of Takeda’s Vaccine Business Unit where he was responsible for global vaccine operations at the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. During his 6-year tenure at Takeda, the vaccine business grew to over 500 employees and created an impressive late-stage pipeline of vaccine candidates against dengue, norovirus and Zika. Before joining Takeda, Dr. Singhvi was President and CEO of Novavax, Inc. a clinical stage vaccine company listed on the Nasdaq (NVAX). Under his leadership, Novavax transformed from a failed specialty pharmaceutical business to a vaccine development company with vaccine candidates against influenza (funded by BARDA) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Dr. Singhvi’s professional career began at Merck & Co in 1994, where he held several positions in R&D and manufacturing.

Dr. Singhvi serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and as an advisor to the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is a mentor instructor in the Undergraduate Projects Opportunity Program (UPOP) at MIT. He serves as a visiting lecturer at the University College London (UCL) and is also on the faculty of the University of Sienna’s Master’s course on Vaccinology.

Dr. Singhvi graduated as the top-ranked chemical engineer from IIT, Kanpur, India and obtained both his MS and ScD chemical engineering degrees from MIT. He received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.