Praveen Prasanna

Praveen is the senior director, external manufacturing at Verve. Praveen has nearly 20 years in the pharma/biotech industry, developing biologic and peptide products for rare diseases. Prior to joining Verve, he held various roles of increasing responsibility within process development and external manufacturing at RTP Pharma, Genetics Institute/Wyeth, Shire, and ImmunoGen. Praveen was most recently at AVEO Oncology, where he was senior director and head of biologics development and manufacturing. Praveen is active in the Parenteral Drug Association and was a co-author of the first edition of PDA Technical Report 60 (2012). His interests are phase appropriate QbD implementation, digital CMC, and external manufacturing best practices. Praveen earned a bachelor and master’s degree in chemical engineering from McGill University and a PhD in chemical engineering from Tufts University.