Promising early clinical trial results from Rocket and Abbisko respectively helped the companies secure their places on the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme, which aims to help speed up the development and regulatory review of treatments for unmet medical needs.

The fourth annual listing of In Vivo’s ‘Rising Leaders’ includes entrepreneurs and innovators from across the world who represent the next wave of creativity in healthcare.

The trajectory of Rocket Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage gene therapy company, has been marked by a series of impressive milestones. At least partial credit for those accomplishments goes to CEO Gaurav Shah, who co-founded the company in 2015 and has combined scientific, business and managerial savvy to progress the company through two regulatory filings this year. Shah recently spoke to In Vivo about the company and his own leadership style.

While other gene therapy companies faced major clinical and financing problems in 2022, Rocket Pharma sidestepped some of these pitfalls and is gearing up for two US filings this year.