Mrutyunjay Suar, PhD

Dr. Suar is a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from University of Delhi and Postdoc at ETH Zurich from 2004-2007 and in June 2007 he joined KIIT University and established School of Biotechnology. During the short span of time, School of Biotechnology became a centre of excellence, supported by Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India. It has attracted several international collaborations such as with ETH Zurich, UCLA-USA, LSTM-UK, Karolinska Institute-Sweden and many more.

He also established KIIT Technology Business Incubator (KIIT-TBI) in 2009 as the CEO, nurturing 200+companies in the area of engineering, Energy, biotechnology and allied areas. KIIT-TBI has been generously supported by various Government of India agencies such as DST, BIRAC of DBT, TDB, MeiTy, MSME, and many more public and private agencies. KIIT-TBI has created more than 1600 jobs through its startup activities. Recently KIIT-TBI has been awarded as Centre of Excellence
by DST, Govt of India in the area of Digital Health & Precision Agriculture.

Received several recognitions including American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Professorship award in 2012 and visited UCLA, USA, GP Chatterjee memorial award during 102 nd Indian Science Congress, Future young Technical leaders by STARS Switzerland in 2010. He also attended Global Entrepreneurship leadership Symposium at HAAS Business School, USA and visited UC Berkley.

Published more than 90 peer reviewed research articles, three patents and Co-founded two startup companies.