Anu Acharya Interview - Designer Babies, Genetic Differences and the Future of Genetic Testing
Channel: The Disruptors - Science, Technology and Ethics
Date: 21/01/2019

Anu Acharya (@anuacharya) is the CEO of Mapmygenome, an Indian Genomics company that provides a range of prognostics, diagnostics and brain wellness solutions for optimal health.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

- Why personalized genetic testing will greatly reduce healthcare costs
- The differences between China, India and the US when it comes to genomics and biotech
- Where we are headed with personalized medicine
- How differences in genetics affect us
- Why Anu is excited about combination of wearables and DNA information
- What happens to humanity as we understand our genetic code
- How biotech regulation will affect the future
- Why Anu is so passionate about preventing genome abuse
- What safety guidelines are needed for gene editing
- Why you are what you eat
- Why biotech companies many replace their legacy pharma counterparts
- How to think about designer babies and their inevitability

Before that, Anu co-founded and was the CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions, a global genomics outsourcing partner for discovery, development and diagnostics. In 2011 Anu was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum and the British High Commission named her part of the “Young Leaders Forum” in 2013. She was selected by Red Herring Magazine to the “25 Tech Titans under 35″ in 2006, has been named Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2008 and was awarded the Astia Life Science Innovators Award in the same year. 

Anu currently serves as a governing board member at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), the premier government R&D Organization in India with 39 labs and 50 field stations across India, is a governing board member at the NIBMG (National Institute for Biomedical Genomics) and also serves as the Vice Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Genetics for the World Economic Forum

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