Shashi Murthy, PhD

Co-Founder & CTO at Nanite

Shashi Murthy is the CTO and co-founder of Nanite, Inc., a Boston-based company developing novel gene delivery vehicles via machine learning. Dr. Murthy previously founded Flaskworks, acquired by Northwest Biotherapeutics in 2020, and co-founded Quad Technologies, acquired by Bio-Techne in 2018. Flaskworks and Quad addressed needs in cell therapy via innovative manufacturing instrumentation and reagent technologies, respectively. Dr. Murthy was on the faculty of Northeastern University from 2005-19 and is an AIMBE Fellow. He received his bachelors and doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins University and MIT, respectively, and postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.