Ms. Anu Acharya
Director,
Bioinformatics
Ocimmum Biosolution
Japan
Biography
Ms. Anu Acharya is the Founder and director of Ocimum Biosolutions. She had founded Ocimum Biosolutions in 2000 and led the company through strategic international acquisitions, capital raises for equity investments and launch of several innovative products, solutions and services. She currently serves as a governing board member at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the premier R&D Organization in India and also a governing board member at the National Institute for Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG). Ms. Acharya is a past President of the Hyderabad Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization and currently serves on the board of Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE). She was recently named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum for its class of 2011. In 2008, she was named Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” and was conferred the Astia Life Science Innovators Award. She was selected by Red Herring Magazine to the list of “25 Tech Titans under 35″ in 2006.
Research Interest
biotechnology
