Pawan Mehrotra

Founder and Managing Director
Aarna Biomedical Products – A Social Enterprise
www.aarnabiomed.in

Transition from a “Cancer Researcher” to an “Engineer” and finally a “Manufacturer-Salesman”
Pawan Mehrotra holds a Ph.D. in Cancer Sciences sponsored by Cancer Research UK which involved inter disciplinary work at Cambridge, Oxford, Dundee and Manchester. He was a independent research fellow below the age of 30 years in the context of Centre for Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, a joint initiative of University of Cambridge and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore before foraying into affordable healthcare product development for unmet user-centric medical needs out of sheer compassion for breast cancer patients who lose their breast(s) as part of the surgical intervention . His team has successfully developed and launched their nascent social enterprise’s first two product – Sampoorti and Poorti which aims at post-surgical rehabilitation of breast cancer patients supported by BIRAC, Tata Trusts and Translational Health Science and Technology Institute – Department of Biotechnology. He has the unique experience of having publications, patents and products to his credit in the field of oncology.