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Anand received his doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His doctoral thesis focused on the design and characterization of a three-dimensional liver bioreactor tissue culture system as a screen for metabolism and toxicity in the Pharmaceutical industry. He was part of a team of MIT scientists and business graduates, who were finalists at the MIT 50K entrepreneurship competition in 2003, for their business and scientific plan for commercializing the three-dimensional in vitro liver tissue culture system. As a postdoctoral associate at MIT in the department of Biological Engineering, Anand studied the influence of cellular microenvironment and transcriptional regulation on the maintenance of a differentiated phenotype in primary liver cell cultures. His interest lies at the interface of science and engineering - specifically in combining principles of engineering and analysis with the science of biology to solve problems in rural health and medicine. | 