Entrepreneur, Advisor, Board Director, CEO.

On a mission to bring new technologies and products to address unmet medical needs, improving health and wellbeing around the globe. Helping others benefit from my learnings and network.

Advisor, Angel Investor

Current engagements:

Entrepreneur in Residence, Columbia Tech Ventures (Columbia University) and Rensselaer Severino Center for Entrepreneurship

Member, Apex Advisory Council to Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, BIRAC.

Mentor at Stanford University Venture Studios and member of StartX incubator (Stanford)

Mentor, Indie-Bio NY

Advisor and Mentor BullPen Peer Group.

Successful entrepreneur, CEO, business development

Taken technologies from invention stage and brought them through proof of concept, design for manufacturing, scale-up, and opened new markets for truly breakthrough ideas.

Raised millions for new drug currently in clinical development for PAH as co-founder of Pulmokine Inc. For the first time these PAH patients have hope as recent phase II data shows signs of disease modifying (reversal) activity.

Global Business Dev for Cytopia’s JAK kinase inhibitors for cancer and immunology

Paper Battery Company (now PRC Tech LLC)- founded company from RPI invention, raised tens millions of funding for pilot production, corporate partnership with Fortune100 company, now in production and commercial sales of 2nd gen hybrid supercapacitors.

Market explorations for X-ray Optical Systems (now part of Danaher)

Publications

Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer

BOOK: Commercializing Successful Biomedical Technologies, 2nd ed, Cambridge Univ Press, 2023.

Paths to Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences in Nature Biotechnology, 2004

Emerging Role of Academia in Commercializing Innovation in Nature Biotechnology, 2004

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and the Bayh-Dole Act in Journal of BioLaw and Business, 2004

Management, Strategy, and Policy

Awakening the Dragon's Breath: Biostatistics, Competency and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry in IEEE Management Conference Proceedings, 2003.

Mehta, S. 2015. Biotechnology: The Technology of the Twenty-First Century. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management. 13:1–14.

Scientific Publications

Mehta S, Oz OK, Antich PP. "Bone Elasticity and Ultrasound Velocity Are Affected by Subtle Changes in the Organic Matrix." J Bone Miner Res 13(1):114-211, 1998.

Antich PP, Mehta S. Ultrasound Critical-Angle Reflectometry (UCR): A New Modality for Functional Elastometric Imaging. Physics Med Biol 42:1763-1777, 1997. 

Mehta S, Antich PP. Measurement of Shear-Wave Velocity by Ultrasound Critical Angle Reflectometry (UCR). Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 23(07):1123-1126. 1997.

Mehta S, Reed B, Antich PP. The Effects of Fluoride on Bone Formation: an In Vitro Model. Biomaterials. 16: 97-102, 1995. 

Zerwekh JE, Antich PP, Mehta S, Sakhaee K, Gottschalk F, Pak CY. Reflection ultrasound velocities and histomorphometric and connectivity analyses: correlations and effect of slow-release sodium fluoride. J Bone Miner Res. 12(12):2068-75, 1997.

Mehta S. PhD Thesis: Analysis of mechanical properties of bone material using nondestructive ultrasound reflectometry. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. 1995.

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