Dr. Kausalya Santhanam
Dr. Kausalya Santhanam
Independent Director

Dr. Kausalya Santhanam, Founder of SciVista IP & Communication, is a Patent attorney registered with the Indian Patent Office as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Dr. Kausalya has a Ph.D in Cell biology and Immunology from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh and a Law Degree from Mumbai University. She was a National Research Council (NRC) Fellow at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington DC and then a Research Associate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and researched in the areas of inflammation and cancer immunology. Later, she worked as an in-house practitioner in the Intellectual Property Department of a Biopharmaceutical Company at Connecticut, USA.

Currently, Dr. Kausalya provides services in the areas of Intellectual Property including IP strategies in the areas of Biotech, Pharma, Nutraceuticals, Agriculture, Nanotechnology and Medical Devices. she is currently also an Adjunct Professor at IIT Jodhpur, Global Executive Pharmaceutical MBA Program of Ahmedabad University and Rady School of Management, San Diego and is also a speaker at various IP-related workshops and training programs in Academia and Industry. She also serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of various Pharma and Animal Health Companies.