Rishab Shyam PhD

Rishab Shyam, Ph.D., is an Executive Director at PureTech Health, where he has been involved in conceptualizing and building the lymphatic and exosome platforms as part of the Company’s internal R&D pipeline. Additionally, he is responsible for generating/identifying novel therapeutic approaches and developing technologies that form the foundational platforms for new therapeutic initiatives around the Brain-Immune-Gut axis. Prior to PureTech, Rishab was as an Entrepreneurial Fellow at Flagship Ventures and also spent a year as a Volunteer Educational Assistant at a school in a village in India. Rishab has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University – School of Medicine and a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, with Minors in Economics and Chemistry, from Purdue University.