SPEAKERS, CHAIRS AND PANELISTS
Speakers and Chairs
Dr Harold Eliot Varmus
Co-chair, WHO Science Council,
Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize For Medicine Former Director of the National Institutes of Health, 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute, Co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Public Library of Science
Dr Eric D. Green
Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Dr Anna Laura Ross, PhD
Unit Head - Science Division World Health Organization, Research Prioritisation and Support Head – WHO Science Council Secretariat Research for Health - Science Division World Health Organization
Dr Michael Sagner MD, FRSM, FRCP, FESPM
Director of the European Society of Preventive Medicine
Dr BS Ajaikumar
Executive Chairman,Radiation & Medical Oncologist, Author
Dr. Rob Freishtat, MD, MPH
Chief Biotechnology Officer & Connor Family Professor in Research and Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, USA
Dr Umesh Shaligram
Executive Director of R&D, Serum Institute of India, Pune
Dr. Kashyap Krishnasamy
VP - The Avestagenome Project Avesthagen Limited
Dr Meera Purushottam, PhD
Senior Scientific Officer, Molecular Genetics Lab, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru
Prof Vani Brahmachari
Professor, Former Director ACBR, University of Delhi
Prof Annapurna Vyakarnam
Professor of Microbial Immunology, King's College London and Adjunct Professor, St John's Research Institute
Dr Geetha Manjunath
Founder and CEO,
Niramai Health Analytix
Dr Dasaradhi Palakodeti
Researcher INSTEM Bengaluru
Dr Praveen K S
Project Leader – Laboratory strengthening
Dr Krishna Khairnar
Scientist & Head Environmental Virology, CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur
Dr Yogesh Shouche
Professor at Azim Premji University
Dr Partha Pratim Majumder
Distinguished Professor, NIBMG, Kalyani
Dr Chakshusmathi Ghadiyaram
Head, Pre-clinical R&D at Mynvax Private Limited
Dr Madhusmita Das
Schieffelin Institute of Health, Research and Leprosy Centre
Dr Deus Ishengoma
Researcher, Entrepreneur, Innovator, pathogen genomics, human genetics
Prof. Anand C Damodaran
Professor of Pathology
SRM Medical College Hospital, SRMIST, India
Prof Anuranjan Anand
Professor Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Dr Stella Chenet
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Ricardo Palma (URP)
Dr Pradeep vaidheeswar
Professor (Additional) Department of Pathology (Cardiovascular & Thoracic Division) Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai, India, President of IAPM
Dr Manoj Gopalkrishnan
CEO at Algorithmic Biologics, former faculty member at IIT Bombay and TIFR Mumbai, researcher in Molecular Computing, Molecular Programmer
Dr Harsh Sheth
Assistant Professor and Head of Advanced Genomic Technologies Division at FRIGE's Institute of Human Genetics
Dr Anurag Agrawal
Dean, BioSciences and Health Research, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University
Prof Niyaz Ahmed, FRSC, FAAM
Professor at University of Hyderabad, Ex Senior Director at ICDDR,B; Editor-in-Chief at Gut Pathogens
Dr Samik Ghosh
Co-Founder IOM Bioworks, Bengaluru, India
Prof Kapaettu Satyamoorthy
Professor at School of Life Sciences, MAHE, Manipal
Dr Punit Prasad
Scientist - E & Ramalingaswami Fellow
Prof. Ashis Kumar Das
Senior Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, BITS- Pilani
Dr Karuppiah Kannan
Executive Director - Global Program Leader at Takeda, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dr Vinod Scaria MBBS, PhD, FRSB, FRSPH
Principal Scientist- CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi
Dr. Natalia Demidenko
Science & Marketing, Skygen LLC
Dr. Sharan Angadi
Ph. D at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Ankur Seeds Pvt Ltd
Dr Mittur N Jagadish
Director Operations-cum-Transitions, RICO WINERY PVT
Dr Bhupinder Hundle
Director Distribution Sales at Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
Dr. Sundaresan Periasamy,
Senior Scientist at Aravind Medical Research Foundation
Prof. S Karutha Pandian
Former Senior Professor & Head Department of Biotechnology Alagappa University
Dr.Jayanthi S Shastri
Former Lab Director,Molecular Diagnostic Reference Lab Regional HIV Reference Lab, NACO Kasturba hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mumbai, India
Dr. K. Balamurugan
Professor & Head Department of Biotechnology Alagappa University
Dr. Hima Challa
Co-founder and Director at K & H Personalized Medicine Clinic, Hyderabad, India
Prof. Doron Lancet
Professor, Dept. Molecular Genetics Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Dr. Praveen K. Bharti, Ph.D.
Scientist 'E' ICMR- National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR-NIMR),
Dr. Sanjeev Galande
Dean, School of Natural Sciences (SoNS), Head of Department Department of Life Sciences School of Natural Sciences (SNS Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India
Dr Sushil Middha,
Associate Professor Maharani Lakshmi Ammani Womens College, Bangalore, India
Dr.K.Anand Kumar
Managing Director Indian Immunologicals Ltd Hyderabad, India
Dr. M S Rao
Former principal scientist IIHR Bengaluru, India
Dr. Sunil Kumar
Lead Data Scientist Farming Solutions & Digital, Corteva Agriscience, Hyderabad, India
Dr. Shanmugam Mayilraj
Director of Research, Bentoli AgriNutrition India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
Dr.Chellappa Gopalakrishnan
Founder and CEO,
Genomatics pvt Ltd
Dr. Seyedeh Zoha Tabatabaei
Fellowship of Clinical Bioinformatics at Tehran University of Medical sciences - Iran
Dr Mehdi Totonchi
Associate Professor in Genetics and Stem Cell Departments at Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran
Dr. Thiruneelakantan Leela Srinath
CEO & Director,
GenoPhe Biotech Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Rakesh Mishra
Director, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bangalore
Dr. Bindu Roy
Scientist D
Rubber Research Institue of India
Dr. Mohammed Faruq
Scientist,
IGIB - New Delhi, INDIA
Dr.Shilpa Garg
Senior Researcher, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability Genomics Sustainable Solutions
Dr. G. Velmurugan, M.Sc, Ph.D
Scientist, Chemomicrobiomics Laboratory, Dept. of Biochemistry & Microbiology KMCH Research Foundation, Coimbatore
Dr. Rahul Solanki
Application Scientist, Diagnostics & Genomics Group, Agilent (India) Pvt. Ltd
Dr. Zuwei Qian
Director, Marketing, Asia Pacific Pacific Biosciences
Dr. Khi Pin, Chua
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Computational Biology Pacific Biosciences
Dr. Anuj Gupta
Business Manager, India
New England Biolabs
Ms. Garima Sanoria
Scientist,
Genome Informatics
Genotypic Technology
Mr. Nihar Das Bachan
Scientist,
Genome Informatics
Genotypic Technology
Dr. Prasanna. S. Koti
Associate Principal Scientist,
Genome Informatics
Genotypic Technology
Mr. Ajay Shinde
Application Support - Bioinformatics Genotypic Technology
Dr. Ravi Kumar Chilukoti
Head – India Technical Support & PM
MGI Tech co., Ltd.
(A member of BGI group)
Dr. Basavaraj Girennavar
Chairman & Managing Director
Criyagen Agri & BioTech
Dr. Satish Kanuganti
Molecular Breeding Lead Rallis India Ltd
Dr. Bipin Pradeep Kumar
Co-Founder,
Iom Bioworks
India
Dr.Radhakrishnan Nair R
Scientist F
Head, Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics, Rajiv Gandhi Centre For Biotechnology (RGCB)
Dr. Prashanth Athri
Co Founder, Cubebioai
Head of Science & Technology - MultiomicsHead of Science & Technology - Multiomics
Reliance Industries Limited
Panelists
Dr Raja C. Mugasimangalam
Founder and CEO Genotypic Technology & QTLomics
Dr Sudha N. Rao
Co-Founder and Executive Director Genotypic Technology, Founder Dhiti Omics Technologies
Prof Samir K. Brahmachari
Founder Director CSIR-IGIB and Former Director General CSIR
Dr. Subrahmanyam Vangala
Co-Founder & Director at Reagene Innovations Pvt Ltd Bengaluru, India
Dr. Manjiri Bakre
Founder and CEO at OncoStem Diagnostics Pvt Ltd Bengaluru, India
Dr. A. Nalini
Professor of Neurology Neuromuscular specialist NIMHANS, Bengaluru, India
Prof. Krishnamoorthy Kannan
Ex Founder KKBIOTECH Vice Chancellor Nagaland Central University (2006-2011), India
