Dr Dharmica Mistry is an Australian impact driven scientist and entrepreneur. She is co-founder and ex-Chief Scientist of BCAL Diagnostics and previous Head of Medtech and Biotech at Australia’s pioneer deep tech incubator, Cicada Innovations. Dharmica spent over a decade taking a research discovery through to commercialisation, developing a safe, cost-effective blood test for breast cancer detection. She then went on to support the medical innovation ecosystem through a number of startup and scaleup programs, providing mentorship and coaching for researchers, entrepreneurs and founding teams looking to commercialise their impactful technologies.
She is the recipient of a number of awards including the NSW Young Women of the Year Aware in 2016, Australian Technologies Competition in 2017; InStyle Women Of Style – Science, 2017; Australian Financial Review BOSS Young Executive of the Year, 2016.
