Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) is a joint initiative of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and Department of Electronics, IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka. It works closely with Karnataka Innovation & Technology Society (KITS), a nodal centre for implementing schemes of the Department of Electronics, IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka & its startup cell. It is a State-of-the-art translational research and entrepreneurship centre catering to all the needs of start-ups in life science.
In a 10 Acre campus with total built up area of above 60,000 sq. ft. the Centre caters to the broad areas of Life Sciences i.e., Healthcare (MedTech & Pharma/Bio-Pharma), Agriculture, Food/ Nutrition, Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka
KNOW MOREBE, Mtech (Biotechnology) Junior Scientific Officer – Life Sciences
KNOW MOREB.E.,(Biotechnology), Innovation and Ecosystem Development Officer - Business Team
KNOW MOREHis PhD was on identifying anti-cancerous DNA intercalative molecules. He pursued his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, on Purification and Crystallographic studies of Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatase proteins. Worked in many academic and corporate organizations. Presently working at Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) as Senior Scientific Officer to manage the Central Instrumental Facility. He also actively involved in a mentoring Scheme by Government of Karnataka, KSAP BIO-50.
She comes with an experience of 5 years. Effectively worked as research associate for Glogene Bioscience, as JRF at MSRIT for research project entitled “Control of candida biofilms causing vulvovaginitis in women using household spices and herbs”, as a biochemist at Seidecosa Skin Care India. Presently working as Junior Scientific Officer facilitating central instrumentation facility usage and supporting in R&D activities. Successfully involved in conducting workshop, seminars/symposiums and training programs.
Malathesh has worked on “Synthesis of Benzolthiozolo Sulphnamido a floxin substance” as a project during his Masters. Apart from academics, he has completed DCTTC course from KEONICS. As a JSO he is assisting senior staff & supporting in-house start-ups and external users’ R&D activities, instrument handling, training the users in their everyday activities. He is also involved in organizing workshops, symposiums & technical sessions at BBC.
Urmila. A, completed her Master’s in Biotechnology at Government Science College, Bangalore. She worked on the project ‘’Enhancement of anticoagulant enzyme production from microbes by induced mutation as a part of master’s degree’’. Currently working as Lab technician at Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre, in supporting the Senior Scientific staffs in day to day activities.
He has totally around 8.5 years of work experience. Previously he has worked at Amphenol Interconnect India Pvt Ltd as Electrical Technician for 1 Year, Ericsson Pvt Ltd as Electrical Technician for1 Year, Carl Zeiss Pvt Ltd as Electrical Technician for 4 Year and FDI Care Pvt Ltd as Electrical Supervisor for 1 Year. Presently from 1.5 years he is working at BBC as Senior Maintenance Supervisor.
She has a total experience of 3 years in incubation centres. She has worked in BBC’s technical team as a Junior Technical Officer. She has also worked at ICAR-NIVEDI’s Agri-Business Incubation Centre under RKVY-RAFTAAR as Assistant Manager. She has done many projects in Biotechnology and NanoBiotechnology for which she has won many awards and recognitions. She is involved in advertisements, organization of events, extending networks of BBC etc.
He has totally around 9 years of work experience. Previously he has worked for at Shanthi Sagar for 5 years as a part of hotel management. Presently from 4 years he is working at BBC as Garden and Canteen Supervisor.
He comes with rich experience of 29 years in Finance and Administration. He has worked with Central Public Sector Undertakings, Private and Multinational Companies. He worked for Bharat Earth Movers Ltd for 21 years where he joined as a junior officer and rose to the level of AGM. He has also worked at Cummins India and Paradigm Geophysical India. He takes care of the Finance and Administrative matters of BBC.
He is a BBM graduate from University of Mysore. He comes with experience of about 5 years in Accounts. He worked as Junior Accounts Officer in NUTRIKRAFT INDIA PVT LTD and as Assistant Branch Head in MANNAPURAM FINANCE LTD. He is working as Junior Accounts Officer at BBC and takes care of the Accounts activities.
She is a BCA graduate from University of Mysore. She has about 2 years of experience working as Admin Associate with Bangalore International Group of Services. She has completed internship at Feinheit Institute, Mysore and worked for the project “Question paper generator using the programming language .net”. She has also completed Python and Data science courses from Besant Technologies, Bangalore. Presently she is working as Admin Associate at BBC.
He has 7 years’ experience in the field of Bio-Medical engineering. He started his career with Coherent Medical Systems. Then he got placed at Fortis Hospital, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore as a Senior Biomedical Supervisor which is JCI (Joint commission International) and NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals) approved hospital. He also worked at Dr Malathi Manipal Hospitals which is also a NABH approved hospital as a Head of Biomedical department.
She is involved in setting up and operationalize the MedTech lab funded by BIRAC. She is also involved in business development and entrepreneurship promotion at BBC. She had worked on projects like “Neurotoxins causing embryonic Autism”, “Non-Invasive glucometer” and “Use of biogenic silver nanoparticles in targeted drug delivery”. She secured three times merit scholarship from U.P government for good performance & won best research award for “Biogenic silver nanoparticles” project.
She has worked on biomedical projects like “Palpitron, a wrist pulse device”. She assists the Project Coordinator in setting up and operation of MedTech lab funded by BIRAC. She is helps the Start-ups who are into Biomedical innovation by availing them the facilities. She is a playback singer, a double “A” grade artiste of ALL INDIA RADIO, pursued M.A. in Music (Gold Medallist) from Jain University.
She worked at CSIR-NEIST as project fellow for more than 2 years where she was able to optimise an eco-friendly bio-delignification process of paper and pulp industry up to pilot scale level. She is the receiver of national research fellowship from DBT-Jawaharlal Nehru University and ICAR for her Master’s and Ph.D. programme respectively. She has qualified competitive examinations including CSIR-NET, ICAR-NET, SLET, ICAR-JRF, Chemistry Olympiad etc.
She is a Registered patent agent having about 6 years of experience in IP Filing. She underwent training in IPR through WOS-C Scheme of DST-TIFAC programme. She also holds a doctorate degree in the field of Environmental Microbiology from Loyola College (University of Madras). She has worked as project fellow in Virology department of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). She also has a list of publications to her credit.
She is a passionate environmentalist and has worked mainly in the field of environment management. She has gained experience of over 7 years from being project trainee in ISRO, Bangalore to Environmental Manager/ Environmental Consultant for NGO as well as MNC. She is also an enthusiastic auditor who holds Diploma in Environmental Auditing and Lead Auditor certificate in ISO 14001:2015 Standards.
He takes care of all the computer hardware and network maintenance, along with software development support. He has 6 years of experience in IT as Desktop Engineer and worked at various companies such as Webcom Information Technology Private Ltd, Total Mall (Jubilant Retail), Page Industries Private Ltd (Jockey India) and Set Infotech Private Ltd.
He takes care of all the computer hardware and network maintenance, along with software support. He has 2 years of experience in IT Assistant as Desktop Engineer and worked at AMR TECHNOLOGY PVT LTD and also He has 8 Months of experience in VENTURE SOFTECH PRIVATE LTD as Data Processing Analyst.
Dr. E.V. Ramana Reddy is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of 1988 batch. He is one of the senior most bureaucrats in Karnataka and has been instrumental in establishing the leading position of Karnataka as an economic and technology hub of India. Dr Reddy holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Agriculture, and PhD in Agronomy from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University Hyderabad. He has 30 years of experience across diverse portfolios such as Agriculture, Revenue Administration, Commerce & Industries, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, Education, Health & Family Welfare, Information Technology & Biotechnology, Space applications, Personnel & General Administration, and Housing. He has also served as ACS to Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka.
With a masters in physics from the University of Mysore Dr.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 also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology. Dr. Subramanya has 36 publications and 9 patents to his credit.
Dr Kumar holds a PhD degree in Biotechnology from Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, a prestigious national laboratory affiliated to Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. Subsequently, he moved to University of Illinois at Chicago, where he worked on Leukemia. In the next stint as a Post Doc at Ohio State University, Columbus OHIO (USA) he worked on various cutting edge research projects related to chromatin remodeling, mitochondrial Phospholipase, its role in apoptosis and role of peroxides in inducing mitochondrial dysfunction in heart, liver and brain. He is the author on several internationally acclaimed peer reviewed papers. He holds a MBA degree from prestigious Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. He also led a team from Ohio State University to contest International Entrepreneurship Challenge, 2008 organized by Materials Research Society.
After returning from US, he joined as a Vice- President of Life Science Incubator at IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad where he was involved in actively mentoring Incubatee companies, creating pipeline of entrepreneurs through innovative models of team building around the technologies, working with public R&D laboratories and Universities to create entrepreneurial models of commercialization. He brought many Government Grants and created a world class center for translational research in Life Sciences at IKP Knowledge Park. As the Director & Head of BBC his current focus is on Incubating Innovations is Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Biofuel/Bio-energy and Pharma/Healthcare. He is working closely with Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS), Department of IT, BT and S&T, Govt of Karnataka, to create a vibrant Life Sciences Innovation cluster in Bangalore.
He is Managing Director of Metahelix Life Sciences, a Tata enterprise. Metahelix is based in Bangalore, India, and is focused on crop improvement, using all the modern tools of plant genetic manipulation.Narayanan is trained as a plant breeder and molecular biologist. He graduated with a Ph.d. in plant breeding and genetics from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University at Coimbatore, India. He later on carried out post-doctoral research at the department of biological sciences, Stanford University under a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship.Returning to India, he started his career as a scientist at the Spic Science Foundation, Chennai and later moved on to lead the crop transformation and functional genomics programme at the Monsanto Research Centre located within the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In 2001, he along with four other scientist colleagues founded Metahelix Life Sciences and has since been leading its operations.Narayanan is a member of several committees and advisory bodies including several scientific task forces on “agricultural biotechnology”of the DBT, Government of India, and the “Vision Group” on Biotechnology set up by the Karnataka governmen.
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