Dharmica Mistry

Dr Dharmica Mistry is Head of Medtech at Australia’s pioneer deep tech incubator, Cicada Innovations, where she is helping to support the medical innovation ecosystem through several startup and scaleup programs which provide mentorship and coaching for researchers, entrepreneurs and founding teams looking to commercialise their impactful technologies. 

She is also co-founder of BCAL Diagnostics, a small Australian biotechnology company developing a revolutionary blood test for the detection of breast cancer. Dharmica spent over a decade taking a research discovery through to commercialisation and has lived through all the trials and tribulations of this journey!