Anuradha Acharya – Founder and CEO of Mapmygenome & Ocimum Bio Solutions

Anuradha Acharya
Anuradha Acharya - Founder and CEO of Mapmygenome

Anuradha Acharya is an Indian women entrepreneur. Acharya is the founder & CEO of Mapmygenome & Ocimum Bio Solutions. In 2011, she was awarded Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Many of you already heard of the success story of Anuradha Acharya- CFounder & CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions & Mapmygenome, and the Most Influential Woman Entrepreneur of India.

We are sharing an inspirational story of Anu Acharya. We hope you are going to enjoy the success story.

Who is Anuradha Acharya

In 1972, she was born in Bikaner. She spent most of her life in Kharagpur. In 1992, she completed his graduation from IIT Kharagpur.

IN 1995, she moved to Chicago & acquired Master of Science in Physics and MIS (Management Information Systems) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Anuradha Acharya was born to a professor. He lived her early life in a campus town. She married to Subhash Lingareddy. He is the founder & CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions. The couple have two daughters.

Acharya is the founder of Ocimum Bio Solutions. From 2000 to 2013, she was the CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions, a genomics outsourcing company for discovery, development and diagnostics, headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

She serves as a member of the governing body of council of scientific & industrial research.

She is the founder & CEO of Mapmygenome – Personal genomics company in India and specializing in genetic tests for nutrition, fitness, and wellness with a focus on DNA-based preventive healthcare.

Mapmygenome is a molecular Diagnostic company that offer personal genomics and diagnostics products.

Anuradha Acharya is one of the board members for the Association of Biotech Enterprises.

That is on the Advisory board for the Action for India and on the board of mentors at IvyCap Ventures.

In 2007, Ocimum acquired the Maryland-based company Gene Logic’s Genomics division.

Ocimum sold a portion of the business (BioRepository), to Transgenomics and moved the rest of the business to India in 2012.

Anuradha Acharya held positions in a consulting company called SEI Information and a telecommunications software company called Mantiss Information. Dynegy Corporation has acquired that.

In 2006, she was named by Red Herring Magazine to the list of 25 Tech Titans under 35.

By Biospectrum magazine, she received the Entrepreneur of the year & the Astia Life Science Innovators Award in 2008.

The World Economic Forum honours her as a Young Global Leader in 2011. In 2015, the Economic Times awarded her ET Women Ahead honor. Forbes named her in the 2018 W-power trailblazers.

She has a book on Poetry named “Atomic Pohe- Random Rhymes at odd times- On Science, Non Science and Nonsense.”

She has written a chapter on Research as a Service (RaaS) in the book Pharmaceutical Outsourcing: Discovery and Preclinical Services.

In Biotechnology, she published an article named “”What mergers can do for you”. She is an active contributor to various other magazines & newspapers like the Hindu Business Line.

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