Dennis Makarawung (MD, PHD)

Medical Director Dennis holds a medical degree from the University of Amsterdam. During his academic years, he successfully completed a research internship at Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, Dennis embarked on a career as a surgery resident in various academic and teaching hospitals, and several private clinics in the Netherlands while concurrently undertaking a PhD project…

System Engineering Team

System Engineering Jasper van den Berg | Bioinformatics Mr. van den Berg recently completed his Masters in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the UvA. His previous research focused on the real-time enrichment, QC and analysis of nanopore data. He has experience building and maintaining pipelines, websites and databases; and has some experience accelerating software through the…

Bioinformatics Team

Bioinformatics Team Teresa Bucho | Biomedical Engineer/ Deep Learning Mrs Bucho is a Biomedical Engineer. After finishing her masters in Lisbon, she moved to Amsterdam to pursue a PhD at the department of Radiology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. During her PhD, she analysed the limitations of current response assessment criteria to treatment in solid tumors…

Greg Duczynski

Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations Greg Duczynski joins us as Senior Vice President for Clinical Operations after a distinguished 32-year career of experience with Pfizer. Since 2016, he served as Senior Director, Clinical Development and Operations and Clinical Study Team Leader. During his tenure at Pfizer his positions ranged across a broad array of…

Lu Chen, PHD

Vice President of Product Development and CMC Dr. Lu Chen has more than a decade of research & development and product development experience in the Cell and Gene Therapy space. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, New York) in 2009. Prior to joining Enochian BioSciences, Lu filled…

Argisht Karapetyan

VP of Finance & Corporate Controller Argisht Karapetyan joined Renovaro Biosciences as Vice President of Finance & Corporate Controller, with 10 years of experience in public and corporate accounting. He began his career in public accounting at BDO USA, leading integrated financial statement audits for publicly traded corporations with annual revenues ranging from $100M to…

Saleem Mahammad

Head of R&D Saleem Mahammad joined Renovaro in the role of Associate Director for Research and Development. He brings with him over ten years of experience from the biopharmaceutical industry and academia. With a solid foundation in immuno-oncology, and cancer therapeutics, Dr. Mahammad held numerous leadership and scientific positions before joining Renovaro Biosciences. As a…

Elango Kathirvel

Head of Analytical Development Elango Kathirvel is Renovaro Biosciences’ Director of Analytical Development, and has over ten years of Quality Control, Analytical development, and GMP experience in the pharmaceutical industry and twenty years of research and development at various academic institutes. Dr. Kathirvel received his Ph.D. in biology in 2004 from the University of Madras,…