Radhakrishna P. Iyer Ph.D., FRSC
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer & Director
Dr. Radhakrishna P. Iyer, also known as Kris, PhD, FRSC Co-Founded Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2002 and has been its Chief Scientific Officer since 2002. Dr. Iyer founded Spring Bank Technologies Inc. and serves as its Vice President of Research & Development. He served as Founding Scientist and Vice President of Discovery of Origenix Technologies Inc., and Senior Scientist & Director of Discovery of Hybridon Inc. He has over 15 years experience in nucleic acids chemistry and antisense technology, drug discovery and development. He was Research Scientist at NIH. He has been a Director of Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc since 2002. He served as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Topigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Iyer was elected fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK in 2004 and UICT Diamond Jubilee Distinguished Fellow in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Mumbai, in 2003. He was a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Bombay, a Visiting Scientist at the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at FDA/NIH. He received his BS, with honors, in chemistry and physics, his BS degrees in the Technology of Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals and his MS in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Bombay. He received a PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California and carried out postdoctoral work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at Johns Hopkins University.