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Rani Therapeutics
Rani Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company building the RaniPill, a swallowable robotic capsule that delivers injectable biologics - peptides, proteins and antibodies - orally, with dissolvable microneedles that painlessly inject the drug into the intestinal wall. Founded in 2012 out of Mir Imran's InCube Labs and now Nasdaq-listed (RANI), Rani aims to replace the needle for chronic conditions ranging from obesity and metabolic disease to immunology and rare disease.
Talat Imran
Talat Imran is the CEO of Rani Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company pioneering the RaniPill - a swallowable capsule that delivers injectable biologics painlessly through the intestinal wall. Son of prolific medical device inventor Mir Imran, Talat leads a company racing to replace needles with a pill, with applications spanning obesity, immunology, and rare disease. A computer scientist turned venture capitalist turned biotech CEO, he brings an unusual tech-meets-biology perspective to one of pharma's thorniest unsolved problems.