About Dr Laxmi Iyer

Laxmi Iyer is the Editor and Co-founder of Biotechin.Asia, a virtual newsroom that offer simplified, curated, fact-based news for all stakeholders in the biotech and healthcare ecosystem. She moved to Singapore from Mumbai in 2008 to do her PhD in Virology from Nanyang Technological University and graduated in 2014.

During her PhD she worked on the process of assembly of respiratory syncytial virus in macrophages and epithelial cells and has several papers to her credit. She has been a science enthusiast all her life and was finally able to give some direction to it, when she co-founded her present company serendipitously. Rather than being the ultimate consumer of internet, she and a couple of friends decided to create good content and aimed to become the social glue of the biotech community- a one-stop solution for anyone who is looking for information related to Biotech academia, industry and startups.

In her talk, “Aspire to Inspire before you Expire” she will be speaking about how her startup came about! She hopes to encourage people to take risks and find their true calling while choosing their careers! Apart from working on her startup full time, she is an avid instagrammer, food blogger, and is passionate about photography!