Professor Maneesha Inamdar is a stem cell and developmental biologist conducting research at Bangalore, India.

She is on deputation from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.

[5] Inamdar has carried out projects for the Department of Biotechnology, the Department of Science and Technology, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and other international agencies including the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), The Wellcome Trust, UK, the DBT-Indo-Danish programme and the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA).

She is Chairperson or a member of several national and institutional advisory and review committees for ethics and stem cell research.

Inamdar is a member of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) planning committee (2019) and the World Health Organization (WHO) expert advisory committee to examine the scientific, ethical, social and legal challenges associated with Human Genome editing.