Nandita Shangari, PhD
Managing Director, RA Capital
Nandita Shangari is a Managing Director at RA Capital. Prior to joining RA Capital, she was a Managing Director at the Novartis Venture Fund (NVF), where she led the U.S. investment team. Before her venture role, Nandita held several positions at Novartis across Business Development & Licensing and R&D. She was a key member of the Kymriah® Global Program Team, helping bring this first-in-class cell therapy to market. Earlier in her career, she held leadership positions in Novartis’ Preclinical Investigative Toxicology organization. Nandita holds a BSc in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Toronto.