Management Team
The Benevolent Alchemist
Rajiv Bhushan is a remarkably independent and interdisciplinary thinker. When he is not researching and developing solutions to defend sight in the aging eye and trying to alleviate blindness, he is focused on the underrepresented people of the world. He is not only concerned with medical solutions, but solutions dealing with poverty and social injustice.
It is no wonder that Chakshu’s Chief Scientist landed that role by simply trying to save his father’s eyesight. He is a voracious researcher, brilliant mathematician, and an inherent alchemist. His scientific approach to develop the Chakshu eye drop led him to multidisciplinary research that spans plant physiology, food biology, cardiology, cancer therapy, ophthalmology and biochemistry. While other researchers do not generally venture into such disparate disciplines for discovery, Rajiv refuses to acknowledge such constraints.
Upon restoring his father’s eyesight (which even included photophobia) and discovering the effectiveness of his eye drop; he realized its implications and chose to share it with the world to help alleviate blindness. The rest is Chakshu history…
Lifework
Prior to co-founding Chakshu Research, Rajiv was the Director of Research at Asquare Inc. He was awarded over a dozen patents in semiconductor equipment while he was the Director of Research at YieldUP International. Rajiv has been a researcher in many fields ranging from medical research to finance and semiconductors. Since 1998, he has focused his research on anti-aging, oxidative stress and inflammatory processes.
Formal Education
Rajiv’s undergraduate work was in science in India, and he has post graduate degrees from the Indian Institute of Management and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. It is no doubt that he was influenced by his Berkeley thesis advisor; the Nobel Laureate, John Harsanyi.