Principal & Co-Founder
NOVEL Health Strategies
Saurabh (Rob) Aggarwal, PhD, is the Principal and Co-Founder of NOVEL Health Strategies, an award winning healthcare consulting firm based in Chevy Chase, MD. Mr. Aggarwal has led more than a hundred US and global healthcare strategy, pricing, dossier, biostatistics, meta-analysis, evidence generation and modeling projects. Before NOVEL, he was at Sanford C. Bernstein (New York), IMS (New York) and Parexel (Washington DC). Mr. Aggarwal is an author of more than two hundred peer-reviewed market access and health economics and outcomes research studies.
Mr. Aggarwal has published several thought leading articles on life sciences industry trends, and is a frequent speaker at major conferences and meetings. Mr. Aggarwal is the author of the annual recurring series published in Nature Biotechnology, called ‘What’s fueling the biotech engine’ (2006-2014), cited by more than four hundred publications. During 2011-17, Mr. Aggarwal was interviewed and quoted by The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature Medicine, Fast Company, The Gray Sheet and other leading news magazines. In 2015, Mr. Aggarwal was awarded Platinum medal by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP). In 2014 he was awarded Platinum and Bronze medals by AMCP for market access and managed care trends studies. He is also the recipient of special recognition award and honorable mention by AACR and Sidney Kimmel Foundation, respectively. He holds a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University.