Managing Director, Health & Life Sciences at Gates Ventures, LLC
Niranjan Bose is currently the Managing Director, Health & Life Sciences at Gates Ventures, LLC, where he serves as the Science Advisor to Mr. Bill Gates and oversees a portfolio of philanthropic investments in Global Health, Alzheimer’s Disease and US Healthcare. Prior to joining Gates Ventures in August 2014, he was the Chief of Staff to the President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
During his tenure at the Gates Foundation, he was responsible for managing the enteric vaccines portfolio (rotavirus, cholera, enterotoxigenic E coli and shigella) as well as the clinical stage pneumococcal vaccine portfolio.
Prior to joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he was with Strategic Decisions Group (and SDG Life Sciences), where he was a Senior Consultant and assisted clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with strategy development, company valuations, portfolio management frameworks, revenue forecasting, and competitive assessments.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative as well as Global Health Labs, a non-profit organization advancing innovations for primary healthcare settings in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2022, Niranjan has been a member of the Board of Directors at Inventprise, a biotech company focused on advancing novel, highly impactful vaccines using a proprietary technology, with the goal of providing life-saving interventions globally.
Niranjan holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College and an MS in Biological Sciences and BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He also received a Business Bridge Diploma from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.