Sandeep Patel, PhD

Sandeep was the inaugural Director of BARDA’s Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), within the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), where he built and led a team that managed over $700M in funding in translational sciences and early stage companies to protect against global health security threats. Previously, Sandeep served in the Immediate Office of the HHS Secretary, where he founded KidneyX, a public-private partnership that catalyzed the development of breakthrough therapies for kidney disease and spearheaded the Presidential Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative, aimed at reforming the nation’s organ transplant system, getting more patients off dialysis, and increasing focus to prevent kidney failure. Prior to that he was a scientific analyst for Thomson Reuters, scientist for an SBIR-backed startup, and a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences.