Testimonials
"I wanted to take a moment to recognize and appreciate Behzad's outstanding contributions during our professional experience. Your skills and dedication are truly impressive. Behzad's ability to make decisions across project stages and strategies using a data-driven approach has been instrumental to our success. Behzad is committed and a hard worker."
Senior Medical Director, Kite Pharma
I have worked with Behzad as a colleague. Behzad is a highly knowledgeable physician scientist and a passionate drug developer. His inclusive leadership style and patient centricity is very inspiring to the team.
VP-Medicine Development Leader, GSK
Behzad has deep knowledge of oncology clinical development and a firm grasp on the special safety and efficacy considerations of cell therapy treatments. He has a track record of coming up with innovative trial designs that are efficient and focused on the needs of patients and investigators. Behzad also understands complex regulations in the US and EU well, and how to work collaboratively with reviewers in the FDA, EMA, and other HA’s to efficiently and effectively get products through the regulatory process to approval with the best possible label that the data support. On top of his excellence in clinical development, Behzad is also a strong and capable leader of drug development teams and a well regarded partner by other core company functions (commercial, medical affairs, etc.) and by KOL’s, investigators and other external stakeholders.
VP Development Strategic Operations Kite Pharma
I have been fortunate to work with Behzad at two different companies; He was the Clinical Development Director at Kite Pharma and the Chief Medical Officer at T Knife therapeutics. He has exceptional oncology clinical development expertise, and was able to find solutions for complex drug development challenges. Behzad is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills. I highly recommend Behzad for Clinical development projects.
Former Head of PVE Kite, Instil Bio, Allogene
“I have had the pleasure to collaborate closely with Behzad in his role as Chief Medical Officer, as we have looked to navigate our potentially 1st in class through its initial clinical programme, build the long-term vision and transact on additional assets. He has brought to the team a keen strategic mind, deep subject matter expertise in I/O, an engaging leadership style and all underlined with a strong and focused work ethic. The collaboration has been a very positive experience for all at Tigen.”
Chief Business Officer Tigen Pharma
Dr Behzad brought to our organization new insights into both the clinical and business fields, providing us with valuable insights and suggestions. As a professional and clear communicator, he always gives more than 100 percent in everything he does.
COO, Co-founder Genicity Bio
Dr Kharabi is a very experienced expert in clinical development and operations. Detail- and data-oriented, professional, he is very knowledgeable in GCP and regulatory compliance. He will always provide you advice of the highest quality and will adapt his advice depending on the current situation and your needs. He's not afraid of hard work and sustained efforts: he's got a huge capacity for work. Interactions with him are easy and productive, I can only recommend working with Dr Kharabi to achieve your goals.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer MaaT Pharma
Behzad is a dedicated Oncology drug developer with extensive experience in designing and executing first-in-human Phase 1, proof-of-concept Phase 2, and pivotal Phase 3 programs. I am impressed by Behzad’s in-depth knowledge and ability to bring both more established and first-in-class treatment modalities from the bench to the bedside and beyond. Without doubt, his hands-on expertise in cancer cell therapy is unrivaled.