About Us

Dr. Kavyashree Manjunath has a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from BMS College of Engineering (VTU), followed by a PhD in protein structural biology using X-ray crystallography from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Subsequently, she worked as Research Scientist in a drug discovery group at CCBT, Instem, Bangalore. Followed by a DST-SERB NPDF funded project on a protein engineering project designing influenza immunogens. She has 9+ years of experience in both experimental and computational protein structural biology. Her research experience include structural and molecular dynamics studies of thermostable proteins, rational protein engineering, next-generation-sequencing data analysis, structure/fragment based drug discovery. Her research work is published in 15 peer-reviewed international journals. 

Prof. Subramanya is the Director of IBAB, Bangalore and Biocon chair. With a masters in physics from the University of Mysore Prof. Subramanya received his PhD in structural biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He went on to do postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, UK. After returning to India, he was a faculty member and Assistant Director of the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow. He then returned to Bangalore, and was associated with Aurigene Discovery Technologies Ltd. From 2002–2014, the latest position being that of Senior Vice President, Lead generation and Structural Biology. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology. Prof. Subramanya has 36 publications and 9 patents to his credit.

Dr. Shriram is a synthetic biologist. Presently the founder of a San Francisco based startup in Programmed live bio-therapeutics called “EliveBio”, whose aim is to engineer a safe human commensal bacteria with a cytotoxic drug and deliver it inside lung to help terminally ill lung cancer patients. He is also part of Indian start-up called “Jananom”, that works on synthetic biology & vegan microbiome foods. He has over 2 decades of experience in building 6 start-ups in life sciences and operated in 28 countries around the world. Three of them failed and three succeeded including one being listed in Zurich stock exchange with a 22x returns to his investor. He lends his support to more than 60 startups along the east coast of India (from Tuticorin to Jorhat) and advises many technology incubators.

A highly experienced professional with 30 years of corporate exposure. After qualifying his Chartered Accountancy he started career with Aditya Birla group and then worked with large groups like Vedanta, L&T, Indo Rama and RPG group as business and growth partner. Deepak was CFO for than a decade of engineering  JV of RPG group with engineering MNC- TE connectivity. He has contributed various articles on financials and business topics in leading magazines and newspapers. He has been recognized five times for CFO roll of honor for year 2013-2014-2015- 2017- 2019 by the CFO India. He also hold a doctorate degree for his research on internal audit effectiveness. Currently he advises various startup and mid size enterprises on financial domain.