Biography:
Narendra Chirmule is a co-founder of Symphony Technologies, a data analytics company. Chirmule currently teaches drug development at UPenn and the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Delhi, and has contributed to the clinical development of several vaccines, biologics, and cell-and-gene therapies. Chirmule's TEDx talk and book Good Genes Gone Bad (Penguin Press) describe lessons learned from colossal failures in drug development. In 2025, Chirmule edited a textbook, Approved: Life Cycle of Drug Development (Springer).
Title : Why do 90% of the drugs fail in development? An analysis of 82+ submissions; and a case study of immunotherapy