Dr. Anula Jayasuriya
Co-founder and Managing Director
Evolvence India Life Science Fund
ocimum biosolutions
India
Biography
Dr. Anula Jayasuriya is an independent director on board of Ocimum Biosolutions. She is the Co-founder and Managing Director of the Evolvence India Life Science Fund (EILSF). She is also serving on boards for Health Care Global (Bangalore) and Lipomics Technologies (Sacramento, CA). In addition, she is a non-profit board director for Astia, LPFI, Harvard Business School Health Industry Alum, and Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. Earlier, she was VP-Corporate Development at Genomics Collaborative Inc. and Vice President for Global Drug Development at Hoffman-La Roche. Dr. Jayasuriya also served as a partner with Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto and with TVM, a German-US venture capital firm in San Francisco. Dr. Jayasuriya has done her BA from Harvard summa cum laude, MD and PhD (in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) from Harvard Medical School. She interned in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. She also has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and M. Phil. in pharmacology from the University of Cambridge, England.
Research Interest
Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Business Management
