Narendra Chirmule is a co-founder of Symphony Technologies, a data analytics company. He currently teaches drug development at UPenn, and Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Delhi. He has contributed to the clinical development of several vaccines, biologics, and cell-and-gene therapies. His TEDx talk and book “Good Genes Gone Bad” by Penguin Press, describe lessons learned from colossal failures in drug development. In 2025, he has edited a textbook “Approved: Life Cycle of Drug Development” by Springer.