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Karthik Viswanathan

Karthik Viswanathan PhD

Biotechnology
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Karthik Viswanathan, Ph.D., is a Executive Director at Visterra, USA. He helped establish the Hierotope platform at Visterra that has led to the discovery and development of multiple therapeutics. He is an inventor of VIS410, an anti-influenza A antibody currently in phase IIb clinical trials, VIS513, a cross-serotype antibody against dengue and VIS649, an anti-APRIL antibody that is in pre-clinical development.

Prior to Visterra, Dr. Viswanathan was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. Dr. Viswanathan received his B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Viswanathan is an inventor on over 30 patents and patent applications and has authored over 35 publications in top-tiered journals including Science, Cell, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.
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