Shyam Patel

Dr. Shyam Patel is the Senior Director of Business Development & Alliance Management at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). He is responsible for managing CIRM’s Industry Alliance Program and strategic partnerships. Shyam’s team engages with the biotech industry to create visibility for CIRM’s mission and to facilitate industry partnership and commercialization opportunities for CIRM’s portfolio. Shyam’s team is also responsible for establishing and managing CIRM’s California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network. He has helped manage CIRM’s alliances and partnerships with organizations such as NHLBI, FNIH, Fujifilm CDI, ISSCR, Biocom and others. Prior to CIRM, Shyam led NanoNerve, Inc., where he and his team developed medical devices for tissue regeneration. He was also on the teaching faculty in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. Shyam received a B.S. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley & UCSF.