Gujrathi

Sheila Gujrathi, MD, is a biotech entrepreneur, executive, and champion for women and other underrepresented groups in leadership. Over the past 25 years, she's had the privilege of developing life-changing medicines for patients with serious diseses while building and running multiple biotech companies--including some pretty exciting exits along the way. She currently serves as a chairwoman, board director, strategic advisor, and consultant to many start-up companies and investment funds.

She has taken three biotech companies public and realized multi-billion-dollar acquisitions. Dr. Gujrathi was the co-founder and former CEO of Gossamer Bio and the former Chief Medical Officer of Receptos and has served on multiple company boards as either a Chairwoman or Director. She is currently back to founding and building several biotech companies where she focuses on developing meaningful therapies for patients with high unmet medical needs.

Her journey started at Northwestern University, where she earned both her M.D. and biomedical engineering degree in the accelerated honors program, and later took her from the halls of Harvard Medical School, UCSF, and Stanford to the corporate rooms of Fortune 500 companies like McKinsey & Company, Genentech, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Dr. Gujrathi has earned multiple leadership awards, including AIMBE Fellow, BLOC100 Luminary, Corporate Directors Forum Director of the Year; Healthcare Technology Report Top 25 Women Leaders in Biotechnology; Athena Pinnacle Award, and Endpoints 20 Biopharm R&D and was named among the Fiercest Women in Life Sciences. But what really lights her up? Creating the kind of supportive, inclusive environments she wished she'd had throughout her career. That's why she co-founded the Biotech CEO Sisterhood, a group of transformative trailblazing female CEOs, and the South Asian Biopharma Alliance--because she believes we're all better when we lift each other up.

When she's not working to bring new therapies to patients or mentoring the next generation of leaders, you'll find her at home with her family, trying to keep up with her teenagers' latest adventures.