Shalaka Samant, PhD

Shalaka Samant is the founder and chief scientific consultant at Biombrella, a life science consulting firm. Her areas of interest are probiotic research, green chemistry research, and microbial biotechnology. Prior to starting Biombrella, Shalaka obtained her PhD in pharmaceutical biotechnology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed postdoctoral training in microbial pathogenesis at Yale University and the University of Texas at Houston. For the past nine years, she has been a senior manager in the Discovery Research department of Anthem Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., a CRO in Bangalore, India.