This CEO Is Fighting Kidney Disease. Dr. Shalabh Gupta Founder & CEO Unicycive Therapeutics $UNCY

This CEO Is Fighting Kidney Disease. Dr. Shalabh Gupta Founder
& CEO Unicycive Therapeutics $UNCYGuestShalabh Gupta, MD,
founder and CEO of Unicycive Therapeutics (UNCY). Website:
https://unicycive.com/ Bio:Shalabh Gupta, MD, is the founder of
Unicycive and has served as Chief Executive Officer, President,
and director since August 2016. Previously, Dr. Gupta served in
various other roles, including founder and Chief Executive
Officer of Biocycive Inc.; a commercial strategy role at
Genentech, Inc.; equity researcher covering US pharmaceutical
companies at UBS Investment Bank; and as an equity researcher
covering biotechnology companies at Rodman & Renshaw
(currently HC Wainwright). Dr. Gupta previously served as a
medical advisor to Synageva BioPharma Corporation and as an
advisor to New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center’s
Office of Technology Transfer. Dr. Gupta is also the founder and
Chief Executive Officer of Globavir, which had licensed
diagnostic technology from Stanford university, which was then
partnered with global commercial diagnostic companies. Dr. Gupta
is an advisor to the UCSF Innovation Center, a role he has held
since 2020. Since 2012, and has also been an advisor to SPARK,
Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Gupta previously
served on the board of directors for the Beall Center for
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of California
Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business.Before his roles in
business and finance, Dr. Gupta was an attending physician at NYU
Medical Center and a clinical faculty member at the NYU School of
Medicine. Dr. Gupta was a board-certified physician, and he
currently holds a license from the California State Medical
Board. Dr. Gupta completed his internship in Internal Medicine,
medical residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and
research fellowship in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation at NYU
School of Medicine. Dr. Gupta received his MPA in Health Care
Finance and Management from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate
School of Public Service and his MD from Jawaharlal Institute of
Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, India.Dr. Gupta
has been in several leadership roles throughout his academic and
professional career. He was elected president of the Resident
Physicians Council during his residency training, representing
approximately 1,500 resident physicians in physical medicine and
rehabilitation across the US. He also served on the Board of
Directors at the Wagner Alumni Association, and was elected to
the Board of Directors of the UC Irvine Beall Center for
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2018.