Shirshendu Mukherjee

Dr. Shirshendu Mukherjee, trained as a Medical Microbiologist brings with him more than two decades of experience in academic institutes, Pharma companies and decade long experience in national, international philanthropic and Government funding agencies and has been instrumental in supporting the innovation ecosystem in the India and beyond. Dr. Mukherjee is currently the Mission Director of the Program Management Unit at BIRAC, formed by the partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Wellcome Trust which manages the Grand Challenges Program of the Foundation which funds a wide range of research areas from maternal and child health, infectious diseases, vaccines, point-of-care diagnostics, agricultural development, food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene etc. that have direct or indirect impacts on health and development and also the Affordable Healthcare in India program of the Wellcome Trust, which funds translation research that could dramatically change the health and development landscape in India and beyond. Dr. Mukherjee holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology, Law graduate, Advance Course in Strategy Management form IIM Kolkata and Management and Leadership course form Said Business school University of Oxford.