Strand strengthens team for programmable mRNA push

6 November 2025

US mRNA-based therapeutics company Strand Therapeutics has announced the promotion of Prashant Nambiar (pictured above, left) to chief scientific officer and appointment of Ethan Cash (on right) as senior vice president, head of portfolio management and program development.

Dr Nambiar assumes his new role from his previous position as senior vice president in recognition of his ongoing leadership across Strand's discovery, preclinical, translational and computational biology teams. 

He helped develop and continues to oversee Strand’s multidisciplinary research and nonclinical organization of more than 50 scientists, encompassing mRNA discovery and LNP delivery, synthetic and computational biology, pharmacology, automation, and preclinical safety. 

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