DR. PREMNATH VENUGOPALAN:
(DIRECTOR, VENTURE CENTER)
Dr. V. Premnath holds a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has also been a Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow with the Centre for Scientific Enterprises, London Business School and Cambridge University, UK. He brings with him considerable experience in technology development and commercialization (two successfully commercialized families of products), working with start-up companies (in Cambridge-UK and India) and engaging with large corporations on research and consulting projects as project leader.
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Dr. Manisha Premnath
(COO and GM, Venture Center)
Dr Manisha Premnath is a Biotechnologist by training with a PhD from University of Pune/ CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. During her PhD work, she was a British Council Higher Education Visiting Scholar at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She has carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her academic training and research experience spans microbiology, fungal biotechnology, molecular biology and molecular virology.
Dr Manisha Premnath was a Chevening Rolls Royce Science, Innovation, Policy and Leadership Programme (CRISP) Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK during 2015 where she had the opportunity to study technology innovation ecosystems.
Dr Manisha Premnath provides leadership for and manages a team that works closely with entrepreneurs and technologists to promote and support scientific/ inventive startups. She was responsible for setting up Venture Center’s scientific facilities – a unique co use facility for technology entrepreneurs. More recently, she has led a team in developing and launching the BIRAC BioIncubator at Venture Center, which not only includes facilities to house biotech startups but also advanced scientific facilities including mass spectrometry, advanced microscopy, flow cytometry etc. She is currently providing leadership to Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (Government of India) supported programs at Venture Center aimed at bio-entrepreneurs.
Dr Manisha Premnath serves on the Board of Directors of IPCA Laboratories Private Limited (Indian pharma company listed on BSE/NSE), Seagull Biosolutions Private Limited (biotechnology start-up company), Nayam Innovations Private Limited (social enterprise focused on healthcare) and Orthocrafts Innovations Private Limited (biomaterials academic spin-off company).
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