Samarendra Mohanty PhD

Dr. Samarendra Mohanty (Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer) is an inventor & serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in Biomedical Sciences. He is Co-Founder and Board member of several Biotechs and Biomedical device /diagnostic companies (developed & commercialized $100K+ biomedical instruments). Samar obtained M.Tech in Applied Optics from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and a PhD in (Bio)Physics from the Indian Institute of Sciences-Bangalore. His extensive Biomedical Technologies experience includes serving as Professor/Senior Scientist at the University of Texas, University of California, Irvine; Center for Adv. Tech (India); Int. Mol. Biotech (Germany); Univ. Pavia (Italy), NUS (Singapore), and the University of St. Andrews (UK).

He has authored over 200 international patents and publications in leading journals, including Nature and Nature Photonics. He has served as Principal Investigator for major grants from the National Eye Institute, including Audacious Goal Initiative and Bioengineering Research grants. He serves on the editorial board of journals and chairs an international conference on optogenetics. He is the winner of a 2019 Healthcare Heroes award (Fort Worth Business Press), Retinal Organoid Challenge Award, Audacious Goal Initiative Award (NIH), Finalist of Tech Titan award, and NIH-Director’s Innovator Award. He is chair of Nanoscope IACUC and IBC.