ABOUT
A research background, applied to strategic questions.
I'm Dr. Bimala Malla, founder of Elucid Science — an independent consultancy built on a decade of neuroscience research, now applied to the scientific questions behind strategic decisions.
BACKGROUND
Trained to make findings that hold up.
I hold a PhD in Medical Neurosciences from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. My doctoral research examined mitochondrial biology in neuroinflammation, developing live-imaging methods in acute CNS tissue to study axonal mitochondria in a multiple sclerosis model.
That work sits at the intersection of neurodegeneration, neuroimmunology and cellular stress biology, and it required a particular kind of rigour: experiments and imaging methods built to remain defensible under scrutiny, not just to produce a result.
Since then, I've extended that work into epigenetics, transcriptomics and sequencing-based approaches, alongside systematic evidence synthesis and scientific writing — broadening my base from single-study depth to landscape-level evidence work across complex biological questions.
Core scientific expertise: advanced microscopy and imaging, translational research, scientific writing and evidence synthesis, and research strategy across neuroscience, epigenetics, sequencing and complex biological questions.
Why I founded Elucid Science
Over time, the most useful part of my work stopped being any single experiment and became the questions underneath it: what does the evidence actually show, where are the real gaps, what is the translational risk, and what does the science mean for the decision in front of you.
I founded Elucid Science to apply that scientific judgement directly to strategic problems — not as a step away from research, but as its natural extension. The training that goes into designing a defensible experiment is the same training I now use to evaluate whether a body of evidence actually supports a decision, a platform, or a claim.
Every engagement draws on that background: methodological rigour, comfort with genuine scientific uncertainty, and the ability to translate dense evidence into something a team can act on.