Aji Parayil is the Founder and CEO of Manus Bio, the world’s leading BioAlternatives scaleup platform. He invented Manus’ core technology platform, launched Manus in 2011, and led the successful scale-up and commercialization of multiple products made through precision fermentation.
Aji is an inventor on more than 180 U.S. & international granted and pending patents and has authored more than 60 publications in the area of biotechnology and chemical biology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and carried out his post-doctoral research at the Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Aji is an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and received the Society of Industrial Microbiology’s (SIMB) Raphael Katzen Award in 2021 for enabling the deployment and commercialization of biotechnology to produce fuels and chemicals from renewable resources.