Venkat Mali

Director, Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Venkat Mali joined Biotheryx as Director of Medicinal Chemistry in July 2022. Dr. Mali supports the Company’s discovery of targeted protein degradation-based drugs and molecular glue discovery programs. He previously worked at AbbVie, where he was a part of the team that discovered BTK degrader, ABBV-101. Prior, Dr. Mali worked at ChemoCentryx and Metabasis Therapeutics. At ChemoCentryx, he supported the discovery of small molecule drug candidates, which resulted in an FDA-approved drug, TAVNEOS™, three Phase 2 clinical compounds and one Phase 1 clinical compound. Additionally, Venkat has co-authored 48 publications and patents. Dr. Mali received a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, in synthetic organic chemistry. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Scripps Research Institute.