Education
She obtained her Master of science degree from the University of Mumbai and her Doctor of Philosophy from the Pasteur Institute.
She obtained her Master of science degree from the University of Mumbai and her Doctor of Philosophy from the Pasteur Institute.
Her post-doctoral work was at the University of Ghent. Outstanding Women Entrepreneur for the Year -06 from FICCI Participant of International effort to sequence Rice Genome American Society for Plant Biologists (ASPB).
2004 The Ojaswini Udyamita Alankaran Award by Ojaswini 2005 The GR8! Women Award for Science & Technology by the Indian Television Academy Outstanding Women Entrepreneur for the Year 2005-2006 from FICCI 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Officer of the National Order of Merit by the President of the French Republic Recognised by the Adolfo Ibanez University for Achievements in Innovation and Creation of Value. Award was conferred upon her at the opening of VentureLb by President of Chile, Doctor Michelle Bachelet Parsi Entrepreneur par Excellence by the Mumbai Parsi Punchayet Astitva Award for Excellence in Science and Technology 2009 Karmaveer Puraskar award as a Corporate Citizen for her contribution in the field of agriculture and healthcare in by iCONGO for Citizen Action and Social Justice. Outstanding Zarathushti Entrepreneur Award from World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce.
Advisory Board Member of the Global Health working group for the Clinton Global Initiative
Participant of International effort to sequence Rice Genome
Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
Member of the Plant Protein Club, York, United Kingdom
Member of the Greater Mysore Chamber of Commerce
Member of Association of Seed Industry
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
American Society for Plant Biologists (ASPB)
Member of the Advisory Board for Biotechnology at Mysore University
Key Member of Task Force & Vision Group of Biotechnology Instituted by Government of Karnataka
Founding Member of ABLE India.