Aditya Bhal­la, PhD, is the Vice Pres­i­dent of Process Devel­op­ment and Man­u­fac­tur­ing at Kan­vas Bio­sciences. In his pre­vi­ous role, Aditya spear­head­ed the Process and Ana­lyt­i­cal Devel­op­ment team at Fed­er­a­tion Bio, where he led the devel­op­ment of nov­el man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es for micro­bio­me ther­a­peu­tics con­tain­ing large num­bers of micro­bial strains. While at DuPont Health Sci­ences, Aditya led micro­bial bio­process devel­op­ment, extend­ing from pilot-scale process­es to a com­mer­cial scale. Aditya is a Bio­chem­i­cal Engi­neer and Micro­bi­ol­o­gist by train­ing. He holds a PhD in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing and a BS/MS in Micro­bi­ol­o­gy (Hons). He has authored numer­ous patent and sci­en­tif­ic publications.