Narendra Chirmule is co-founder and CEO of SymphonyTech Biologics, a data analytics company focused on engineering solutions to biology. Former Head, R&D, Biocon (Bangalore), leadership positions in Amgen and Merck.

Narendra Chirmule has contributed to the development of vaccines and biopharmaceuticals over the past three decades. The drug development experiences include vaccines for cervical cancer [HPV], shingles [Varicella zoster], childhood diarrhea [Rotavirus]), and biopharmaceuticals for osteoporosis (Prolia), rheumatoid arthritis (Enbrel), platelet loss (NPlate), breast cancer (Ogrivi), biosimilar insulins among many others. He has worked on gene therapy using viral vectors at UPenn in the late 1990s. He has published extensively and presented seminars on subjects of immunology, biologics, and vaccines. 

The subject of his Ph.D. was on the development of a leprosy vaccine, from Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai; post-doctoral studies on the pathogenesis of AIDS from Cornell University Medical College-North Shore Hospital, New York; teaching and research as an assistant professor in gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.