Sundeep Dugar
Chief Technology Officer, Epirium Bio

Dr. Dugar is the founder and currently the Chief Technology Officer of Epirium Bio. He has more than 30 years of experience in drug discovery and development in a range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, inflammation, central nervous system, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. In 2008, he founded Sphaera Pharma Pte. Ltd, an integrated drug discovery and development organization led by pharma and biotech professionals with global experience. He also held the position of Vice President at Johnson & Johnson/Scios Inc., where he helped build the small molecule drug discovery program. He served in positions of increasing responsibility at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough, and is a co-inventor of Zetia® (ezetimibe) and Vytorin® (ezetimibe/simvastatin). He is the recipient of the 2005 National Inventor of the Year Award, the American Chemical Society’s 2004 Heroes of Chemistry Award.

He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and was as a Trustee on the UC Davis Foundation Board. He is a co-author of more than 70 publications and presentations, and a co-inventor of over 100 issued and applied patents. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Cornell University.