Scientist · Founder · Builder
Building at South Park Commons
Priyanka
Sahni
Deeply rooted.
Relentlessly growing.
Unbothered by the storm.
The Journey
India. United Kingdom. United States.
India gave me curiosity. The UK gave me rigour. The US gave me scale and the R&D labs where I spent years applying that foundation to drug and biotech pipelines. Each move meant rebuilding credibility from zero, walking into rooms where I was the only person who looked like me.
Being dismissed is not the same as being wrong.
Specialisations
- Preclinical R&D
- Assay Design & R&D Operations
- Immunology
- Product Formulation & Development
- Customer Acquisition & Sales
- Consumer Brand Building
The Scientist
The body is always communicating. My job is to listen.
Years in biotech and pharma R&D taught me one thing: the most important skill is not knowing, it is noticing. I noticed patterns in datasets before the models flagged them. I noticed what was missing from the clinical literature. I noticed that the questions being asked were almost never the right ones, especially when the patient was a woman.
The most important skill in science is not knowing.
It is noticing.
Co-Founder, Ruca Naturals
Science is only useful
if it reaches people.
Co-founding Ruca Naturals in San Francisco taught me that molecular knowledge is worthless without trust. I had to translate barrier function and sebum regulation into something a person would actually put on their face. That translation skill — from lab bench to human being — is the thing I brought to Aura.
You need surface area. Breadth is not dilution — it is how pattern recognition works.
Founder, Aura
I built Aura for the version of me who sat in a doctor's office for the seventh time and was told everything looked fine.
I spent years building tools that helped pharmaceutical companies understand the body. Aura does the same thing for the woman herself. Her cycle, her hormones, her patterns, before anyone else tells her what they mean. The science is not new. The access is.
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