We are a team of life sciences and informatics experts with extensive experience in translational research, healthcare informatics and molecular diagnostics.
Our Team
Nimisha Gupta
Founder, Informatics & AINimisha completed her master’s in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and has over 20 years of experience in developing products and solutions for healthcare diagnostics, drug discovery, translational research, and business intelligence. She has led various interdisciplinary teams in delivering custom software solutions that streamline diagnostic lab workflows. She is committed to empowering patients with technology that enables better health management and informed decision-making. Her areas of expertise include Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning, which she utilizes to create informatics pipelines that simplify operations, analysis, and clinical reporting of data and compute-intensive diagnostic tests. A key area of interest for Nimisha is developing AI driven applications for efficient mining and curation of public scientific literature, such as clinical trials and PubMed articles, to generate actionable information.
Vaijayanti Gupta
Founder, Science and TechnologyVaijayanti received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in conjunction with Syngenta’s R&D labs in San Diego, California. Thereafter, she worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA in the field of genomics and genetics. She has over two decades of experience working at the interface of informatics and biology, building R&D labs, leading teams for product development and translational research. She has expertise in design, development and validation of several clinical tests including a next generation sequencing based panel for tumour profiling and liquid biopsy based detection of cancer. She also has a proficiency in tertiary analysis of multi-omics data. She is passionate about combining assay chemistry with informatics and building data driven solutions in different domains of life sciences. Building affordable, simple and cutting-edge solutions for patient care motivates her.
Shilpa Patil
Senior ScientistShilpa is an experimental biologist specializing in cancer biology. She earned her PhD in Oncology and Cancer Biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where she researched therapeutic antibodies. Her postdoctoral experience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, involved extensive translational research on anti-cancer therapy and radiation-induced tissue injury. Shilpa collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to establish clinical interpretation and reporting workflows for next-generation sequencing-based tests in cancer. Additionally, she leads an informatics team in curating and compiling extensive information on cancer immunotherapy targets.
Sucharitha
Senior InformaticsSucharitha holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and brings over 20 years of experience in developing software solutions for automation in life sciences and clinical diagnostics. She is highly skilled in establishing workflows for information extraction from biological databases and has implemented numerous natural language processing-based pipelines to derive actionable insights from unstructured text in both life sciences and business intelligence domains.
Our Advisors
Sanjeev Gupta
AdvisorSanjeev is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a Cost and Management Accountant (CMA) with over 15 years of experience working with Infosys and Apple Inc (USA). His expertise spans across IT, finance, and operations. For the past decade, Sanjeev has been involved in the healthcare sector, creating preventive healthcare solutions through modern technology and lifestyle adjustments. As an advisor to G-KnowMe, Sanjeev contributes his knowledge in financial planning and legal.
Satish Sankaran
AdvisorSatish earned his PhD in Molecular Biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals in Boston, USA. With over 12 years of experience in molecular diagnostics, Satish has expertise in clinical genomics, assay development and validation, clinical lab operations, quality process development and implementation, and regulatory compliance for clinical labs. He is an empaneled NABL (ISO 15189) assessor in the field of Medical Genetics. Currently, Satish serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Farcast Biosciences and is a scientific advisor to G-KnowMe.