[Meet our Team]
Krupa Rajur, MD, CEO & President
Dr. Krupa Rajur is Ivy educated, board certified physician entrepreneur. She is the leading nephrologist at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua & Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Krupa Rajur has over 15 years of experience in Clinical Nephrology and Critical care Nephrology including renal dialysis and renal transplantation. She is the Director of DaVita Dialysis for In-center and Home Hemo-dialysis. She is the graduate of Entrepreneurship Development Program at the Sloan School of Management, MIT.
She is the Co-founder and Director of CreaGen Biosciences and President of CreaGen Accelerator for early stage startups in life science and biotech industry. CreaGen Accelerator has enabled the successful graduation of 10 companies, helped create >70 jobs, and received >500M in funding over past 11/2 years.
Raj Rajur, PhD, Executive Director & Founder
Dr. Rajur holds a PhD degree in synthetic and organic chemistry. Dr. Rajur's academic career includes appointments at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Boston College, Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School.
In the industrial sector, he has held scientific and managerial positions at ArQule and Millipore Corporations. He has authored more than 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds 3 US patents.
As an enthusiastic thought leader, he encourages dedication and goal driven work.
Anny Chum, Vice President of Operations & Administration
Anny Chum serves as the Vice President of Operations & Administration at C2I Accelerator. She holds associate degrees in Business Administration and Biotechnology from Middlesex Community College.
With over 20 years of experience across technical, operational, and administrative functions, Anny plays a key role in supporting C2I’s day-to-day operations, tenant coordination, facility management, and internal systems that help foster a collaborative life sciences ecosystem.
She is highly regarded for her dedication, reliability, and strong work ethic, and also supports the technical and research initiatives of CreaGen through operational and administrative collaboration.
Nandan Padukone, Advisor
Nandan is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at T1D Fund, a spinout venture fund of JDRF, Strategic Advisor at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, and is a Mentor/Catalyst at MIT Deshpande Center and MassBio. Dr. Padukone has been Joslin’s Senior Vice President, Innovation during 2012-2018 where he created and led a business team, to build revenues, alliances, and ventures from R&D and clinical assets. The 20+ strategic alliances covered metabolism, obesity, kidney and eye complications, regenerative medicine, microbiome, and autoimmune targets, and cross-disease platforms.
He facilitated several start-up companies and helped achieve funding from SBIRs, foundations, angel groups and VCs. Dr. Padukone has been President and CEO of Nuvera Biosciences (2005-2012), a personalized medicine company he founded as a spin-out of MD Anderson Cancer Center. Prior to Nuvera, Dr. Padukone was President of Silico Insights (2000-2005), a bioinformatics company he founded to develop novel machine learning algorithms for analysis of genomic, proteomic and clinical data.
Dr. Padukone holds an MBA from U. Denver, a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engg. from NC State University, an MS, Chem. Engg. from SUNY, Buffalo, and a B.Tech., Chem. Engg. from IIT, Mumbai.
Kriti Garg, Senior Accounting Manager
Kriti Garg serves as the Senior Accounting Manager at C2I Accelerator. She holds a Master’s degree in Accounting and Cost Control, along with professional certifications in QuickBooks.
With expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, compliance, and operational planning, Kriti plays a key role in managing C2I’s financial operations and supporting the organization’s continued growth and strategic initiatives.
She is known for her detail-oriented approach, organizational leadership, and commitment to operational efficiency, while also supporting the financial and administrative functions of CreaGen.