Professor Rakesh Veedu
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
An internationally recognised expert in DNA and RNA chemistry, oligonucleotide therapeutics and nucleic acid modification, and the founder of Syngenis. He is Professor and Head of the Precision Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Group within Murdoch University's Personalised Medicine Centre and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science. With more than two decades of experience across state of the art synthesis facilities and long term research programs, over 115 peer reviewed papers, a specialist scientific text and multiple patents, his work spans antisense oligonucleotides, RNA therapeutics, chemical modification and delivery, across neurology, oncology and metabolic disease. He is also co founder and director of ProGenis Pharmaceuticals. He provides deep scientific and technical leadership across manufacturing, discovery and therapeutic strategy.