Dr. Dhananjaya Dendukuri is the CEO and Co-Founder of Achira Labs, a pioneering company in microfluidics technologies for medical diagnostics. Returning to India with a passion for engineering, he has led Achira to develop India’s first microfluidics-based point-of-care platform for immunodiagnostics and the world’s first woven-fabric diagnostic platform. Achira’s research is supported by 24 international patents and numerous publications, earning the National Technology Award for Biotechnology. Dr. Dendukuri is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, MIT TR35 winner and a member of the jury of the Infosys Prize.  He holds a Ph.D. from MIT, an MASc from the University of Toronto, and a B.Tech from IIT Madras.