Murali Prasad Vandayar

Malaysia Malaysia

in the fine act of commercializing science.

Consulting / Advisory

Murali Prasad is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering with 12 years experience in either managing or consulting disruptive technology ventures. In 2007, during his post-grad research in Biomedical Engineering, he was part Malaysia’s pioneer R&D team that attempted to design a digital microfluidics point-of-care diagnostic kit for dengue. A year later, he raised private funds to license a fluidic technology from the US and co-founded VeLOCs, a lab-on-chip product development company and worked with various infectious disease diagnostics research groups in Malaysia. The 4 year struggle provided insights on common issues with commercialization of early stage scientific discoveries - in