Dr. Sonali is Head – Accelerator and resident tech mentor for MedTech startups at CIE. She has more than a decade of experience in the life sciences and healthcare domain.

Prior to joining CIE, Dr. Sonali has worked in the capacity of Incubation Manager for a VC firm, heading their Hyderabad unit. Her primary responsibilities included domain support & business consultancy to life science-based incubates, assessment & evaluation of various startups & their KPIs, key stakeholder management and business development.

Dr. Sonali pursued her Ph.D. in developing a nanomedicine-based delivery vehicle which can cross the blood-brain barrier and provide cure to brain tumor using receptor-mediated targeting. She has presented her work in multiple conferences and published several peer-reviewed journals. She has also carried out her post-doctoral research in the field of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)/ Lateral Transfer (LT) of degradative traits, especially the OPH coding opd gene clusters in bacteria.