Primary Job Title Visiting Professor of Medicine Primary Organization 
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Since joining the Company as a founding scientist in 1990, Dr. Agrawal has served in senior scientific and leadership roles including Chief Scientific Officer from 1993–2010. He was appointed President in February 2000, Chief Executive Officer in August 2004, and served as Chairman from September 2010 to July 2013. Dr. Agrawal has published over
300 research papers/reviews and has edited two volumes on oligonucleotide chemistry and one on antisense therapeutics. He is also a named inventor on over 300 patents, issued or pending in countries around the world.
Dr. Agrawal received his D.Phil. in Chemistry in 1980 and carried out his post-doctoral research at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K. While working at Worcester Foundation of Experimental Biology, he carried out work in antisense technology with Paul Zamecnik, MD, and based on this technology, the Company was founded.
