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Connecting the dots

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Connecting the dots
Our Story

Bridging Science and Access

Arete Access was founded after seeing therapies with excellent science struggle to reach patients—not for lack of efficacy, but because evidence, regulatory, and payer needs rarely aligned. We envisioned a better way: integrated project delivery that connects evidence generation, regulatory strategy, and market access from protocol design forward.

Why We Exist?

From Evidence to Access

Our mission is simple: every breakthrough deserves its chance to reach patients. We deliver projects that connect clinical development, regulatory strategy, and market access—ensuring evidence serves multiple stakeholders from protocol design forward. Through systematic reviews, value dossiers, regulatory strategies, and economic models, we accelerate the path from approval to patient access. 

Our Team
Integrated Thinking. Rigorous Execution.

Our team brings together expertise across clinical development, regulatory strategy, data science, and market access. Led by professionals with deep pharmaceutical and biotech experience, we combine specialized expertise with enterprise execution capability. You work directly with experts who have led evidence generation, regulatory submissions, and market access strategies at leading pharmaceutical companies. Every engagement receives senior-level attention with solutions tailored to your therapeutic area, development stage, and market requirements.

Managing Partner
Amrita Ostawal

Amrita Ostawal is the Managing Partner of Arete Access. With nearly 15 years of leadership experience in clinical development, medical affairs and health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), she has driven evidence-based healthcare decisions across global pharmaceutical and medical device markets. 

Her expertise spans health technology assessments, payer value communications, and medical writing, developed through senior roles at leading innovators and consulting companies. Amrita is passionate about leveraging data science to bridge medical affairs and market access, helping organizations demonstrate value through evidence-based insights.

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Partner
Kavin Kailash

Kavin Kailash is a Partner at Arete Access, bringing a unique blend of financial acumen and healthcare expertise to this role. With a B.A. in Economics from SUNY Buffalo and early experience in financial modeling at the Airbus Group (formerly EADS), Kavin combines strong analytical foundations with deep healthcare knowledge.

His recent experience in Medical Affairs projects include developing scientific manuscripts for various therapeutic areas published in peer-reviewed journals, demonstrating his ability to distill complex scientific concepts into clear and concise publications. His operational experience includes setting up and managing business operations in the retail sector while working across various countries and cultures such as Japan, United States and Germany.

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Director, AI/ML Strategy
Gauranga Kumar Baishya

Gauranga Kumar Baishya serves as Director, AI/ML Strategy at Arete Access, where he guides the integration of advanced machine learning techniques into clinical development, evidence generation, and market access. He focuses on ensuring that AI/ML models are interpretable, rigorous, and aligned with healthcare decision-making. His expertise spans causal inference, reinforcement learning, generative modeling, and probabilistic machine learning, applied to real-world challenges in computational biology, public health, and computational linguistics.

Gauranga began his academic journey in mathematics at IIT Kharagpur, followed by an M.Sc. in Data Science from the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). In 2024, he was selected as a Khorana Scholar, supported by IUSSTF and DBT, Government of India, and conducted research at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, focusing on the deconvolution analysis of human adipose tissue.

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Why Us

Why Choose Arete Access?

We don't just provide strategic advice—we deliver projects that move the needle. When you partner with us, you gain senior experts committed to your success through rigorous execution. We deliver systematic literature reviews, value dossiers, regulatory strategies, and economic models that work across clinical, regulatory, and market access pathways. Because integration isn't our methodology—it's how we ensure every deliverable compounds impact rather than creating handoff delays.

Our Brand Values

We are Agile

We embrace change and adapt quickly to the evolving healthcare landscape, providing flexible and responsive solutions to meet your unique needs.

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