Management

Balaji Bhyravbhatla, Ph.D., CEO & COO

Dr. Bhyravbhatla received his doctorate in Biophysics from Brandeis University under the guidance of Professor Donald. L. D. Caspar. He went on do a post-doc in Florida State University and later continued there as a Visiting Faculty. In 2001 he moved to University of Massachusettes Medical School as a faculty member in the Biochemistry and Pharmacology department and also served as the CORE Director for the X-ray facility. His interests are in the virus and protein crystallography with background in fiber diffraction and also computational methods.

Dr. Bhyravbhatla co-founded Xtal Biostructures along with Dr. Suto in April of 2005 and lends his extensive experience in laboratory and project management to Xtal.

Robert K. Suto, Ph.D., President and CSO

Dr. Suto received his doctorate in Biochemistry from Colorado State University under the direction of Professor Richard Finke. During post-doctoral studies with Professor Karolin Luger at Colorado State University he conducted X-ray crystallography studies of nucleosome core particles containing histone variants and DNA binding polyamide ligands.

Prior to co-founding Xtal BioStructures, Dr. Suto served as a lead Scientist at Pintex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a startup company focused on the development of structure-based cancer therapeutics and diagnostics (sold to Vernalis in 2005). His multidisciplinary background in biochemistry, chemistry, and X-ray crystallography was used to build the drug discovery and development programs for Pin1 inhibitors.

Sastry Dwivedula, MBA, VP Business Development

Mr. Dwivedula received his MBA from IIM India and has program management  as well as  administrative experience in startups. He has worked in large and small companies including several of his own startups.