BioRadar has named Ambika Bumb, PhD, Chief Business Officer. She brings more than 20 years of experience across biotechnology, biodefense, government, and scientific innovation.
Dr. Bumb founded and served as CEO of Bikanta Corporation, a diagnostics company developing nanodiamond-based imaging technologies. In government, she was Deputy Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House, and she served at the Department of State, where she led global health portfolios and interagency crisis response during the COVID-19 pandemic. That work included the effort to bring more than 100,000 Americans home from more than 135 countries. She was also Deputy Executive Director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, where she managed work on biological threat preparedness, medical countermeasures, and national biodefense strategy. Earlier roles include Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
She is Vice Chair of the External Advisory Board for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and a member of the National Academies’ Forum on Microbial Threats.
As Chief Business Officer, Dr. Bumb will work with Co-Founders Ashish Jha and Nikki Romanik to turn strategy into execution and lead some of BioRadar’s highest-priority cross-functional initiatives.