Former Director-Life Sciences of Telangana Shakthi Nagappan named CMD of biomanufacturing firm PreferCo
Shakthi M. Nagappan, former head of Telangana's Life Sciences sector, has been appointed CMD of the biomanufacturing firm PreferCo. The company aims to scale up industrial biotechnology in India, aligning with national strategic priorities for biomanufacturing.
Why it matters
This appointment signals a significant move in India's industrial biotechnology sector, aiming to replicate the country's success in vaccine manufacturing.
Former Telangana Life Sciences Foundation CEO and Director Life Sciences of the State Shakthi M. Nagappan has been named Chairman and Managing Director of PreferCo, a Hyderabad-headquartered precision fermentation company that he co-founded.
As CMD, he will be leading the company as it builds an integrated platform spanning strain engineering, process development and bioprocess scale-up in partnership with German process technology major Glatt.
The platform it is building, in Hyderabad’s Genome Valley, is focused on addressing one of the industry’s most critical challenges — translating promising biology from the laboratory into robust and commercially viable manufacturing at scale.
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