Mr. Chandrasekhar.B.Nair is the Director and Chief Technology Officer of Molbio Diagnostics, one of India’s leading healthcare companies in the In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) market. In addition, he is also the co-founder of the Bigtec Labs - the R&D division of Molbio Diagnostics and a fully owned subsidiary of Molbio-Diagnostics.

Mr.Nair holds an M.E in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani and a Ph.D in Bio-MEMS from Vellore Institute of Technology. His career in research and development started at the Vittal Mallya Scientific Reaseach Foundation where he headed the Computer-
Science and Engineering Division.

After his tenure at VMSRF, he co-founded Bigtec Labs to focus on innovative diagnostic solutions. During this journey, he came across Molbio Diagnostics, which aims to decentralize and democratize access to gold-standard molecular testing in both India and globally.
Molbio’s Truenat® Real-Time PCR is the world’s first molecular diagnostics platform endorsed by WHO for
diagnosing TB at Point of Care. The device is positioned in CHCs/PHCs all over India under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP), India and is globally deployed in over 80 Countries. It is
expected to create a major impact in the global target to eliminate TB by 2030. Molbio continues to design
and develop new innovative tools to take quality healthcare to the last mile.

Mr.Chandrasekhar Nair and his team’s work has enabled testing for millions of COVID-19 cases across resource-limited settings in India and the diagnosis of multiple infectious diseases including tuberculosis all over the world.

Chandrasekhar has been at the forefront of India's Medtech R&D ecosystem for over 30 years, developing
cutting-edge healthcare technologies that have been scaled through advanced manufacturing facilities, diagnostic devices, and kits for global markets in both the private and public sectors. In recognition of his contributions to the healthcare industry, he received the prestigious “Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science in 2021”.

In his spare time, Dr. Nair likes to reach ancient Indian literature.