Bikanta’s founder Ambika Bumb graduated from Georgia Tech and obtained her doctorate from Oxford while on the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. She completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the National Cancer Institute and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute where she developed Bikanta’s nanodiamond-based technologies.. She has received. numerous scholarships and awards for excellence in engineering and was profiled in 2011 in Nature as a successful young scientist on the fast-track. Her endeavors in the areas of nanomedicine and diagnostics have led to multiple patents and many publications.
