 Amrita Therapeutics Ltd. received initial funding in late 2008 from Gujarat Venture Finance Limited, and more recently received a grant for a two-year research program in 2010 from the Indian Department of Biotechnology under the Biotechnology Industry Promotion Program (BIPP).Chakrabarty is currently a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.Apart from being an eminent scientist, Ananda Chakrabarty has been an advisor to judges, governments, and the UN.