Kaveri Das

Kaveri Das received her PhD from the University of Calcutta in Molecular biology. She did her postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester, New York, USA, working on Rous sarcoma virus. Kaveri joined Astra Research Centre India (later became the AstraZeneca R&D Centre, Bangalore, India) in 1989 and worked on several projects on Japanese encephalitis virus, broad spectrum antibiotics discovery and tuberculosis. She was the Head of Biosciences at the AstraZeneca R&D Centre, Bangalore and led a team of molecular biologists, biochemists and bioinformaticians. Her expertise is primarily in the early part of drug discovery processes for infectious diseases. She was involved with the Government of India’s Open Source Drug Discovery as a consultant starting in 2014. Currently Kaveri is also on the board of the medical device start-up company Biomoneta in Bangalore.