Rajni Aneja
Managing Director, CIFS-IPP, Food Science

Rajni Aneja is Managing Director of the Cornell Institute for Food Systems Industry Partnership Program (CIFS-IPP), where she is responsible for developing and implementing impactful university-industry relationships between CIFS Faculty Fellows and their counterparts in the food systems industry. Rajni brings over thirty years of corporate partnering and business development experience in the life sciences industry to her role. She is a co-founder of zuChem, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company commercializing novel fermentation technologies for manufacturing food ingredients.
Rajni holds a B.Sc. (Hons) from University College London, an M.S. from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business in business economics and finance. She currently serves as a member of the editorial board of Industrial Biotechnology.
Contact Information
Stocking Hall 110F
411 Tower Rd
Ithaca, NY 14853
ra283 [at] cornell.edu
Rajni in the news

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The hackathon included more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from almost all of Cornell’s Ithaca campus schools and colleges.
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A year of hackathons kicks off Oct. 25-27 with the Food Hackathon in Stocking Hall, which focuses on finding solutions that address hunger, poor nutrition, food waste and other food-related challenges.
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