Manjiri Bakre's Biography

Manjiri Bakre, Founder and CEO, OncoStem Diagnostics Pvt Ltd.

Dr Manjiri Bakre, a gold medalist from R. Ruia College, University of Mumbai for B.Sc (Microbiology), has M.Sc in Microbiology/Biochemistry from M S U, Baroda. She received PhD in Cell Biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Post Ph D she has worked in USA at Mt Sinai School of Medicine, NY and at Moores Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, CA on very diverse cellular signal transduction areas such as perception of bitter taste and cancer biology. In 2003, she moved to Genome Institute of Singapore and worked on human embryonic stem cells and cancer stem cells. Manjiri moved back to India in 2007 and led a group in cancer drug discovery in a biotech company followed by multi-disciplinary research on ‘point-of-care’ diagnostics at Philips Research in Bangalore and The Netherlands. In 2011 she founded OncoStem Diagnostics Pvt Ltd. focused on developing novel cancer diagnostic tests. The company is funded by venture capitalist.
She is a recipient of Young Scientist Award given by International Union of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (IUBMB). She has published in many peer reviewed journals such as Nature Medicine, has patents, mentored students and presented work at international conferences. She has extensive experience in multiple areas of biology as well as in technologies such as microfluidic assays, microarrays etc. In addition her work published from Singapore has been given Best Paper Award- given to top 1% papers published annually by Journal of Biological Chemists.