Krishna Balakrishnan Ph.D. M.B.A.

Krishna “Balki” Balakrishnan joined NCATS in 2011. As a senior technology transfer manager, he works with scientific staff members to facilitate their collaborative efforts. Balakrishnan assists in all aspects of developing these strategic alliances, including helping to define the contours of the collaboration, delineating roles and responsibilities for the various parties and troubleshooting any challenges that may occur during the collaborations.

Before joining NCATS, Balakrishnan served as executive director at the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, a nonprofit foundation affiliated with NIH. His earlier positions at NIH include marketing group leader in the NIH Office of Technology Transfer and senior technology development manager at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Before joining NIH, Balakrishnan was vice president of technology and business development and vice president of research and development at a division of Covance, formerly Berkeley Antibody Company. He earned a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-inventor on two U.S. patents and has published and presented extensively on scientific subjects as well as technology transfer matters.