Ashoka Madduri is the Head of Scientific Strategy and Intelligence at Sanofi's mRNA Center of Excellence, where he guides strategic decision-making across various technology verticals. Previously, he co-founded and led a biotech company at Yale Ventures, and provided strategic insights to early-stage life science startups. Ashoka has extensive biotech industry experience in business development, corporate strategy, and consulting across a wide variety of therapeutic drug modalities and novel delivery technologies for diverse indications. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Ph.D. in Bio-organic Chemistry from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and completed a postdoc in Immunology at Harvard Medical School.