Shiva Krupa, PhD, MBA Vice President, Program Management

As Vice President of Program Management at Orna, Shiva supports the development progress of Orna’s circular RNA programs.

A seasoned Portfolio and Program Manager, Shiva provides strategic experience in building teams and processes to support programs and projects from Discovery through early phase clinical development. Prior to joining Orna she served in numerous Program and Portfolio Management roles at AskBio, Homology Medicines and Biogen, where she worked closely with Preclinical R&D and Novartis (NIBR) in External Collaborations and Research Alliance.

Shiva received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India and completed her post-doctoral fellowships at the National Cancer Institute, NIH. She also holds an MBA from UMass Amherst. Her hobbies include traveling and hiking with her family, and she is an active MRC volunteer, assisting with MRC health clinics.