Microbial Engineering for Therapeutics

incubators in thecountry and has incubated more than 250 companies so far. She holds a Masters degree from Banaras Hindu University and a Ph.D. in Life Science from Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, ACSIR (CSIR-IMMT), Government of India. She has received Post-Doctoral Fellowship under Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India. At KIIT TBI, she is involved in coordination, implementation and monitoring of various innovative programmes of various ministries like BIRAC, DBT, DST, Meity, Startup Odisha, Startup India and Invest India for technology development from ideation to commercialization.  Dr Misra has also been a catalyst in augmenting innovation ecosystem by being an active member of the Technology Enabling Centre at KIIT University, supported by DST and the BIRAC Regional Centre at KIIT TBI focusing on East and North-East states of India and Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster (BCKIC), supported by PSA, Govt of India. She has delivered more than100 invited lectures in various entrepreneurship development programs across Universities and Institutes in the country. Besides being Head-Technology Incubation at the KIIT TBI, Dr. Misra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, KIIT University.  Her research and teaching interests includes study of vital metabolic pathways and in-depth sequence-structural analysis of underpinning enzymes to decipher the molecular mechanism of important biological processes in host. She has authored or coauthored more than 40 peer reviewed international journal publications. She has also developed several cutting-edge computations tools, databases, and web servers which have been widely used by scientific community.

Chandravanu "CV" Dash, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research (CAHDR) and the Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology at the Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA. He is a biochemist in traini