Senior Vice President of Technical Development, Biomarin Pharmaceutical
Search every verified Ganesh Vedanth interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ganesh Vedantham, Senior Vice President of Technical Development at BioMarin Pharmaceutical, described his background as a chemical engineer and his role leading the technical development department for gene therapy in a September 2023 appearance. He stated that the company is "just starting to scratch the surface of understanding" with gene therapy, adding that the modality's increasing biological complexity makes it "more and more interesting for us scientists and engineers to try and solve." Vedantham also commented on the future of the field, saying that "maybe even five years, ten years from now we are going to be working on things that we are not working on today." He characterized BioMarin as a company that "will go after whatever is the right biology with the right modality to get the right medicines for patients."
“I'm a chemical engineer by background and we thrive on optimizing functions to find the right solutions. My name is Ganesh Vedantam, I lead the technical development department and I am the senior vice president of the function for gene therapy.”
“We're really just starting to scratch the surface of understanding with this new modality and energy modality that comes up the biology becomes more and more complex, therefore more and more interesting for us scientists and engineers to try and solve and understand.”
“Maybe even five years, ten years from now we are going to be working on things that we are not working on today and that's always been BioMarin. We will go after whatever is the right biology with the right modality to get the right medicines for patients.”
Dr. Vedantham joined BioMarin in 2021. He is a seasoned leader in the biopharmaceutical industry, with global experience in ...
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