Ashwin Ram, MD

Ashwin is a physician-scientist, biotechnology entrepreneur, and Partner at Catalys Pacific. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer and is a co-founder of Crystalys Therapeutics Inc., Founder of Pexalys Therapeutics, and CBO of Kirilys Therapeutics. He is previously Founder of Axelys, Co-Founder and SVP Operations at Pathalys Pharma, and Founder and CEO of Jupiter Therapeutics, Inc. Prior to this, he was a part of Genentech’s Early Clinical Development — Oncology team and practiced as a board-certified radiation oncologist.

Ashwin completed his MD at the University of Michigan Medical School with highest honors and Dean’s distinction in research. After training in radiation oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he completed an MS in bioengineering at Caltech and a postdoc at Stanford University as an NCI Cancer Translational Nanotechnology fellow.