#24 Sona Chandra: A new paradigm in drug discovery

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English - January 04, 2022 09:20 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MB
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In this episode, we are talking to Sona Chandra, the co-founder of Terra Lumina - an AI-based drug discovery platform.
Sona is a qualified Biomedical engineer who speaks passionately about drug discovery and healthcare. One can tell from her responses that she’s determined to make a dent in how we as a civilization discover and engineer medicines. We spoke to Sona about her cross-continental journey and understanding how a person of Indian origin, who is actually a citizen of Australia, gets educated in the US and eventually lands up in Berlin to become a two-time startup founder. Mind you, all of this happened in Sona’s life well before she turned 30, and that perhaps, explains how she ended up receiving the coveted Forbes 30-under-30 award in 2020.