Shashi Murthy Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

• Nanite designs fit-for-purpose non-viral delivery vehicles for gene therapies using machine learning.
• Current partners include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the CMT Research Foundation, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in addition to undisclosed biotech and pharma companies.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Acquired by Northwest Biotherapeutics in 2020.
• Innovative single-use automated systems for dendritic cell and T cell manufacturing.
• Primary inventor of company's patented core technologies (9 patent families assigned to Flaskworks).
• Company built via non-dilutive grants and strategic; no purely financial investors.
• 2019: Flaskworks was one of only ten companies to receive a Milestone Achievement Program grant from the Massachusetts Life Science Center.

Boston, MA, US

• Built globally recognized research program spanning biomaterials and fluidic systems.
• Over 80 peer-reviewed journal publications and 21 issued or pending patents. Elected Fellow of AIMBE.
• Managed projects supported by >$8MM in grants from federal and private sources.
• Trainees included postdoctoral (7), doctoral (11), masters (2), and undergraduate (45) researchers.
• Northeastern Univ. institutional representative to CIMIT (a local university-hospital consortium; 2010-2014).
• Chaired three search committees that selected seven new departmental faculty hires (2009-12).

Boston, MA, US

• Selected for this role based on successful track record as Acting Department Chair and entrepreneurial experience. Built Center from scratch, led design of its space in Hayden Hall, and designed all of its programs..
• Coordinated fundraising effort to secure additional $2.5 million gift in 2018 for expansion of the Sherman Center to more than double its physical space and programs.
• Conceived and implemented Center’s product-themed core offerings in customer-driven innovation, product design, prototyping, and mature product development, each of which is a semester long course. These courses began.
• Led fundraising effort to create an engineering-focused alumni mentoring program (and associated full-time staff coordinator position) for entrepreneurial students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
• Created a Minor in Entrepreneurial Engineering with versions for both engineering and non-engineering students.
• Created a specialized co-op program for engineering students to advance early stage entrepreneurial concepts via prototyping and customer validation. Half of past and current participants of this program successfully.

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

• Brought in to stabilize department and execute leadership transition.
• Secured 16% operating budget increase for department.
• Created and filled new permanent non-tenure track teaching position to address departmental needs.
• Worked with College development office to secure major gifts for undergraduate scholarships and equipment donation for undergraduate teaching laboratory.
• Executed external search for department chair in 6 months (typical timeline is 1 yr.)

Boston, MA, US

• Organized and ran all departmental faculty meetings.
• Made teaching assignments for all department faculty and teaching staff.
• Formed and monitored all standing and ad hoc departmental committees.
• Facilitated department operations.

Woburn, MA, US

• Acquired by Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) in 2018.
• Primary inventor of the company's patented QuickGel(TM) core technology.
• QuickGel(TM) platform enables releasable magnetic bead-based cell separation and T cell activation. Applications in cell-based immunotherapy (e.g. CAR-T manufacturing) and basic research.
• 2016: Quad Technologies named one of the top 3 emerging companies by BioProcess International.
• 2013 MassChallenge Global Startup Competition: Quad Technologies was a final Silver Prize winner in a competition which drew over 1,200 startups globally.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Collaboration between my lab at Northeastern and the Proteomics Platform at the Broad.

Boston, MA, US

• Sabbatical leave at laboratory of Prof. George Daley. Worked on new and ongoing projects examining the role of mechanical forces in stem cell biology.

• Provided expert advice to partners of this firm on current portfolio and future investment prospects in the areas of stem cells and green chemistry, as well as on geopolitical and cultural considerations relevant to.

Boston, MA, US

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• Performed experiments on bench scale reactor to examine flue gas desulfurization.
• Created and optimized mathematical models for desulfurization processes.
• Worked collaboratively with staff engineers from Austrian Energy & Environment and an academic team from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

• Gave lectures in Chemistry and Physics to high school classes.
• Assisted with laboratory classes in Chemistry.

Postdoc, Microfluidics

Phd, Polymer Science

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Education record