Seema Banerjee is a biomedical engineer who has spent her career at the intersection of medical science and clinical impact. She began at Philips Healthcare as a clinical specialist on a new IVD platform, then moved into image-guided therapy, helping scale a minimally invasive lung oncology intervention into a multi-country clinical network before leading its global business development.
She went on to help build the MedTech and oncology vertical at an AI-based lung analysis scale-up, work that led to the introduction of a new product in the company's portfolio. Advising MedTech startups worldwide across IVD, point-of-care diagnostics, wearables, digital health, SaMD, and diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, she saw the same pattern repeat: promising innovations stalling not from failed science, but from a system that couldn't sustain the long journey to patients.
MedTech demands one of the longest, most complex paths in any industry,which is exactly why building here is so often undervalued, despite the outsized chance to improve lives. Seema believes this is the moment to change that. As India and Europe collaborate more closely, the path from breakthrough to patient impact is becoming shorter, more connected, and more achievable.
"If an innovation can save lives, the system around it should accelerate that journey, not exhaust it."