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Pune Inc: How her mother’s death set a top scientist on a mission to improve diagnostics
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Dr Preeti Nigam Joshi founded FastSense Innovations in 2018 and began to develop different platform technologies for the diagnosis of different diseases.
(Express photo)Pune-based Dr Preeti Nigam Joshi was standing at the cutting-edge of India’s deep tech advancement.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi, she was an expert in micro-electro-mechanical systems, working on chip sensors and small point-of-care devices, she was one of the few people who were working in these areas.
“I lost my mother in 2018 due to pancreatic cancer.
Living in Pune, we had access to proper screening systems for cancer-like complex diseases but we were not able to screen my mother on time and lost her within four months.