Dhananjaya Dendukuri

Dhananjaya Dendukuri is Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Achira Labs. Dhananjaya returned to India with his passion for engineering and belief that technology development for underserved markets must be done locally. Achira is a pioneering Indian company translating cutting edge technologies in microfluidics to industrial practice in the area of medical devices and diagnostics. They have built India’s first microfluidics-based platform for point-of-care diagnostics and also created the world’s first woven-fabric based point-of-care platform. The research output is backed by 24 issued international patents, several peer-reviewed publications and 7 national and international government-funded projects. Achira received the National Technology Award for new technologies (biotechnology) in 2016.

Dhananjaya was named as one of 20 individuals to receive the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Technology Review’s prestigious TR35 awards in India for the work that was being done at Achira.

He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT, an MASC in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he received the ‘Institute Blue’. Outside of work, Dhananjaya enjoys running through the leafy parts of Bangalore and playing the Carnatic violin.