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Dr Reddy's Labs appoints Dr Alpna Hansraj Seth as Independent Additional Director
Telangana: Dr Reddy's Labs has announced the appointment of Dr. Alpna Hansraj Seth as an Additional Director, categorized as Independent, on the Board of the Company for a term of five consecutive years, effective from September 19, 2023. The said appointment is subject to approval of the shareholders of the Company through postal ballot process.
Dr. Alpna Hansraj Seth served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nura Bio Inc., a neurology pharmaceutical company for three years, until she retired starting October 2022. Prior to this, Dr. Alpna was the Chief Operating Officer of Vir Bio Inc., a biopharma pioneer for treating infectious diseases. Before that, for nearly two decades from 1998 to 2017, Dr. Alpna was a senior executive at Biogen Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company.
Here, over the years she undertook several leadership roles with increasing P&L responsibility, spanning R&D to commercialization of new drugs in markets across the world. Early in her career at Biogen, she led oncology R&D which culminated in a successful merger of equals with Idec Pharma to form Biogen Idec. She was instrumental in establishing Biogen’s strategic expansion in Asia as a founding Managing Director in India with its HQ in Gurgaon, and then returning to Biogen’s global HQ in the US to lead the launch of its largest multibillion-dollar neurology drug franchise world-wide. In 2014 as Senior Vice President, she moved to Europe to spearhead Biogen’s foray into biosimilars with the rapid creation of one of the fastest growing biosimilars businesses in the industry. Along with a deep and broad industry expertise in biopharma, Dr. Alpna’s experience includes health care and life sciences tools, industrial biotechnology, diagnostics, and management consulting. In addition to North America, she has lived and worked in Asia and in Europe. Dr. Alpna has a trackrecord of creating and leading new businesses across therapeutic areas and modalities including biologics (novel and biosimilars), small molecules, gene therapy and RNA-based therapeutics.
In addition, Dr. Alpna brings extensive corporate governance and strategic oversight experience as a member of the Board of Directors of large publicly listed multinationals and VC-funded private biotech companies. Dr. Alpna currently serves as an independent Director on the boards of three public (NASDAQ listed) companies- Seagen, Bio-Techne and Keros Therapeutics. Dr. Alpna received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from University of Massachusetts Medical School and conducted her post-doctoral research at Harvard University in immunology and structural biology, both as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow. She is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
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Ruchika Sharma joined Medical Dialogue as an Correspondent for the Business Section in 2019. She covers all the updates in the Pharmaceutical field, Policy, Insurance, Business Healthcare, Medical News, Health News, Pharma News, Healthcare and Investment. She has completed her B.Com from Delhi University and then pursued postgraduation in M.Com. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in Contact no. 011-43720751