Saira Ramasastry

Biography

Ms. Ramasastry was elected a director in March 2013 by the other members of the Board following their decision to bring in additional members with appropriate experience. Ms. Ramasastry is the Founder and Managing Partner of Life Sciences Advisory, LLC, a firm that provides strategic business advice for the biopharmaceutical industry. Previously, Ms. Ramasastry was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co., where she was responsible for originating M&A, strategic and capital markets transactions in the biotechnology industry. Prior to Merrill Lynch, she worked in the M&A group at Wasserstein Perella & Co. Ms. Ramasastry currently serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the Board of the American Liver Foundation, the Board of Directors of Sangamo Biosciences (NASDAQ: SGMO) and the Board of Directors of Pain Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTIE). Ms. Ramasastry received her B.A. in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University, and advanced degrees in Management Science & Engineering and Management Studies from Stanford University and the University of Cambridge where she serves on the Cambridge Judge Business School Advisory Council.

Research Interest

SCIENCE