Monisha Hajra is a life science Entrepreneur. Her current venture, ScientiaBio is a training and consulting firm for pharmaceutical industry. She has been instrumental in taking ScientiaBio beyond Indian shores and expanding to Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, South Africa. The Company is also making inroads in other emerging pharma market like Brazil, Thailand .
She had started the journey of Entrepreneurship at the age of 26 as a founding member of Institute of Computational Biology (IOCB). She has presented her research work on Parkinson at USA most significant conference on Computational Biology attended by 1000 scientists from 81 countries.
Monisha received Priyadarshini Award, outstanding women entrepreneur by Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs (FIWE) in 2012
In 2009, Monisha was selected for Entrepreneurship Course at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad completely sponsored by Goldman Sachs
Monisha holds master degree in Biochemistry from University of Calcutta and post graduate diploma in Bioinformatics from Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB). She has also worked as research scientist in Biocon R&D.