Mihir Kekre
Head of Commercial Partnerships Tropic Biosciences
Mihir Kekre brings long-standing experience in product and management roles, delivering on internationally competitive objectives and strategic program goals.
His career spans roles at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, focussed on deployment of scalable genomics-based solutions for antimicrobial disease surveillance in developing regions of Africa, South-East Asia and South America. Through his work, he has also worked closely with international bodies like the WHO, European Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Public Health England.
Mihir joined Tropic Biosciences in 2021 and oversees technology business development – building industry-academia partnerships through technology licensing and commercialisation across the company’s global technology and research services portfolio (for e.g., GEiGS® trait development platform).
Seminars
- Highlighting Tropic’s developing and commercializing non-transgenic gene-editing bananas and rice to reinvigorate industry benchmarks, accelerate market readiness, and solve critical on-farm challenges
- Explore collaboration with Agribiotech and food/beverages startups/multinationals interested in leveraging Tropic’s trait development platforms to solve critical industry challenges, thereby scaling innovation and developing novel non-GM traits in their crops, livestock, and aquaculture species of interest
- Benchmarking delivery efficiency by clarifying regeneration and fertility criteria to guide go/no-go decisions
- Capturing practical solutions for overcoming genotype dependence in crops such as citrus, cocoa, vines, and brassicas using emerging methods like meristem and pollen electroporation
- Integrating transgene-free technologies and exploring novel delivery approaches to accelerate adoption and market readiness
