Yash Pandya, Assistant Professor and Director, Projects, Grants and Funds, Aarambh Incubation Centre, is an experienced academician and researcher. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of entrepreneurship studies and developing new innovative products and technology solutions for the community.

He has several years of experience at the Gujarat Student Start-up and Innovation Hub, contributing to portfolio management and designing policies and accelerator programmes for start-ups. Yash leverages his expertise and diversified experience in diagnostic, academic, research and development in life sciences to design policies for Anant National University’s student start-up programmes. He also helps students interested in the start-up ecosystem by guiding them from idea to market journey, mentoring them to develop their ideas into POCs, networking with industries to help students create market-ready products/technologies/services and providing funding support from government grants to develop their innovations further.

Before joining Anant, Yash worked as a Teaching Associate at UTS. Thereafter, he worked on a research project on ‘Characterisation of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Genomic Islands’ in UTS. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at L J University and designed courses and curricula for Master’s in Applied Biotechnology and Microbiology. During his tenure at LJ, he established the Bio-Incubation BSL-II laboratory to incubate student start-ups with innovative solutions for products or technologies developed in the life-science sector.

Yash has a Master’s in Molecular Microbiology from Griffith University and Medical Biotechnology from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Yash has extensive experience in academic genetic counselling and diagnostic pathology lab research (genetics and molecular biology departments). He is well-versed with bio-instruments like next-generation sequencing (NSG), gradient PCR, real-time PCR, flow cytometry, fluorescent microscopy, mass spectroscopy, size-exclusion and ion-exchange chromatography.