Pavan Kumar Cheruvu MSc, HST, MD

Dr. Cheruvu has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Axovant Sciences, Inc. since February 2018. Prior to joining Axovant, Dr. Cheruvu held roles of increasing responsibility at Roivant and supporting Axovant since 2015 and was appointed to the Roivant executive leadership team in 2017. A board-certified physician, Dr. Cheruvu completed his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and continued his training in a clinical fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Prior to his medical training, Dr. Cheruvu was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on biopharmaceutical strategy. He earned his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering, B.S.E. in electrical engineering, and A.B. in chemistry from Duke University summa cum laude, his M.Sc. in computer science from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.