Asma Mirza

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ASMA MIRZA

Asma Mirza is an NIH Fellow for RADx (Rapidly Accelerating Diagnostics), a molecular biologist, a global health practitioner, and the founder and CEO of Steradian Technologies, Inc, a Houston-based infectious disease startup bridging the gap of healthcare inaccessibility by inventing a fully portable, photon-based respiratory disease diagnostic that costs the price of a latte! Under Asma’s leadership, Steradian received consecutive prestigious Bill & Melinda Gates grants for their work in creating high-fidelity tech for global health equity, as well as several grants from Johnson & Johnson, the Center for Medtech Device Innovation, and XPRIZE Foundation. Asma received her undergraduate degree in chemistry and molecular biology from Houston Christian University and her graduate degree in Global Health and Human Rights from Duke University. She is passionate about merging hard sciences with social science to reinvent, create, and develop innovative ideas into reality. Asma has led large projects globally in the Caribbean, Middle East, South Asia, and East Africa. Asma recently received the prestigious Patrice Johnson Award Honor, the highest distinction in civic leadership in Houston, Texas. She is a fellow of Leadership Houston Class and a cofounder of PAMosaic HTX, a non-profit arts collective highlighting artists of color and their work. Asma was also nominated and selected for Johnson & Johnson\'s CEO program. Asma was named Entrepreneur of the Year by MAX Texas Chapter. Lastly, her company Steradian Technologies was named BIPOC Startup of the Year by Houston Exponential, Top 10 Most Promising Life Science Startups by Rice Alliance and the Texas Life Science Forum, received the Houston Methodist System Award, and won the \'One to Watch\" MEDy (Medical, Entrepreneurship, and Disruption) Award by NextMed Health. Steradian Technologies was selected and is currently in the Texas Medical Center\'s Accelerator for Health.