Sulagna Bhattacharya, Co-Founder & CEO

Sulagna Bhattacharya, MBA |  Co-Founder & CEO

As Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nanoscope Therapeutics, Sulagna Bhattacharya leads a talented and diverse team dedicated to the development of sight-restoring therapies for the millions of patients worldwide blinded by inherited retinal diseases for which no cure exists.

Ms. Bhattacharya is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded several biotech and biomedical device/diagnostic companies. Before entering the biotechnology world, Ms. Bhattacharya had decades of experience in management consulting at Deloitte and Hitachi Consulting.  Her specialties included business intelligence and risk management.  She played a key role in seven full life cycle project implementations including multi-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions and later founded a Management Consulting Company.

Currently, Ms. Bhattacharya sits on the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) where she serves on the Health Section Governing Board, and the Emerging Companies Section Governing Board. She also serves on multiple comittees includingthe Capital Formation Committee, and the Corporate Governance Committee. She is also serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

Ms. Bhattacharya has been recognized as an EY Entrepreneur of the Year regional winner (2022) and a Top 25 Women Leaders in Biotechnology for 2023.

She has B.Tech degrees in Electrical, Electronics and Communications, as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

On March 6, 2021   /    
Nanoscope Therapeutics, Inc.
Trinity Towers
2777 N. Stemmons Fwy.
Dallas, TX 75207
(817) 857-1186

  • Dr. Samarendra Mohanty, PhD |  Co-Founder & President

    Samarendra Mohanty (Co-Founder/President) is an inventor & serial entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in Biomedical Sciences. He is Co-Founder of several Biotechs and Biomedical device /diagnostic companies (developed & commercialized $100K+ biomedical instruments.)

    Dr. Mohanty obtained M.Tech in Applied Optics from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and a PhD in (Bio)Physics from the Indian Institute of Sciences-Bangalore.

    His extensive Biomedical Technologies experience includes serving as Professor/Senior Scientist at the University of Texas;  University of California, Irvine; Center for Adv. Tech (India); Int. Mol. Biotech (Germany); Univ. Pavia (Italy); NUS (Singapore); and University of St. Andrews (UK). He has authored over 200 international patents and publications in leading journals including Nature and Nature Photonics.

    He is the Principal Investigator for major grants from the National Eye Institute including Audacious Goal Initiative and Bioengineering Research grants. He serves on the editorial board of journals and chairs an international conference on optogenetics. He is the winner of a 2019 Healthcare Heroes award (Fort Worth Business Press), Retinal Organoid Challenge Award, Audacious Goal Initiative Award (NIH), Finalist of Tech Titan, and NIH-Director’s Innovator Award.