Nandita Shangari, PhD

Managing Director, Venture

Nandita Shangari is a Managing Director with the Venture team at RA Capital Management. Nandita’s primary responsibility is to work on new company creation and early-stage investments. Prior to RA Capital, she was a Managing Director with Novartis Venture Fund (NVF), a life science investment firm. Prior to that, Nandita held various positions at Novartis in Business Development and Licensing and as a key member of the Kymriah® Global Program Team, helping to bring this novel cell therapy to market. Nandita has also held strategic and group head roles in the Novartis Preclinical Investigative Toxicology organization. Nandita holds a BS in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Toronto, Canada.