At Gandeeva, we aim to revolutionize the drug discovery paradigm by employing ground-breaking advances in machine learning and cryo-EM imaging to develop precision medicines for our most challenging diseases with unmet needs.
We are an interdisciplinary team with a shared ambition: to use our diverse expertise and combined experience to create precise, effective therapeutics that improve the lives of patients and their caregivers.
We offer a stimulating, diverse, vibrant, and fun company culture that provides meaningful personal and professional growth experiences for all employees. We value your passion, perspective, experience, and ideas.
“Working at Gandeeva has been a career-defining experience for me,” said Dushyant, who
earned his PhD at McGill University studying how bacterial ribosomes assemble using cryo-EM.
“Gandeeva has provided me the perfect platform to deliver high-resolution cryo-EM structures at
speed and scale that I haven’t seen anywhere else. There is a lot of expertise to draw on and
mentorship opportunities. I love how conversations with colleagues from different scientific
backgrounds help accelerate our discoveries, and I truly value this opportunity to work with an
amazing team to make people’s lives better.”
Dushyant Jahagirdar is a Structural Biology Scientist on Gandeeva’s cryo-EM team and collaborates with biochemists and chemists to visualize protein-protein interactions and guide structure-based drug design.
“When I finished school, I knew that I wanted to work in industry, specifically drug development,” said Gates. “The unique benefit of working at Gandeeva is that I can swivel my chair and ask someone in another research area what they are doing and let that inform what I’m working on; the result is that the process of drug development can happen in days. Because we’re a small team, but also a very friendly team, we can update each other about what we’re working on in real time and move the process along much more quickly than if we were separate and working in a more structured environment.”
Ellen Gates is a biochemist on Gandeeva’s in vitro biology team who spends much of her time preparing compounds and developing or optimizing assays to determine their effectiveness and potency. Her work is a critical piece in Gandeeva’s development cycle: from testing a drug with its target to advanced testing in cellular models to determine a drug’s mechanism of action, she is deeply involved throughout the process.
Ellen always knew she would follow her dad into the sciences; at the University of Saskatchewan, she developed an interest in physiology and pharmacology, following her passion to the Okanagan campus of The University of British Columbia to complete her Master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.
“I was drawn to a career at Gandeeva at first because I have such respect for (CEO) Sriram Subramaniam and his vision,” said Rhodes. “It is wonderful to work with such innovative and creative people in a culture that enables everyone to not just thrive but also to grow.”
Katherine Rhodes is the Senior Operations Manager at Gandeeva Therapeutics. Her day-to-day work ranges from managing significant infrastructure projects, including the renovation of Gandeeva’s 22,000 square-foot head offices and research facilities, to developing processes and systems to support our scientific teams in their work. Katherine’s no-nonsense approach to procurement and facilities management ensures that everyone in the building has what they need to succeed, and that business operations run smoothly.
Katherine joined Gandeeva in 2021 to lead a massive renovation project that included retrofitting the space to accommodate highly technical – and sizeable – research equipment, as well as wet labs, computational space, and room for our administration and operations teams to expand.
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