Ram Palanki
Senior Vice President of Commercial, Americas
Management
Technical University of Denmark
Japan
Biography
Dr. Palanki brings more than 15 years of experience in ophthalmology across marketing, sales, reimbursement, commercial operations, business development, and medical affairs leadership. Prior to Santen, he was Global Head of Marketing and Sales at Thrombogenics, Inc., where he led the commercial launch for Jetrea®, a novel proteolytic enzyme therapy for Symptomatic VMA. Previously, Dr. Palanki served as Director of Global Marketing and Sales at NeoVista, Inc., and earlier in his career, held several positions at Genentech as part of the team that developed and launched Lucentis®. Prior to Genentech, he worked at Eyetech Pharmaceuticals as part of the initial team submitting the NDA for Macugen™ and at Novartis Pharmaceuticals in the New Product Commercialization group. Dr. Palanki earned his PharmD at Albany College of Pharmacy in New York and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Research Interest
Business management
