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Misala is an Africa-first biotech company building science-backed products, AI-supported diagnostics, and therapeutics for the women's health conditions the world has neglected.​

Women's health, built for African women.

We build trust by combining science, access, and real-world delivery. This allows us to reach women directly while developing diagnostics and therapeutics that shape the future of care.

In Her Era is Misala’s consumer wellness and education arm: the first layer in our Reset, Detect, Treat framework.

Introducing In Her Era

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Read our live editorial platform, Welcome to Your Era, where we publish honest, science-backed writing on vaginal health, menopause, pleasure, postpartum recovery, and other taboo topics African women are too often expected to navigate quietly.

Misala exists to close the translational gap between academic research and the commercial health solutions available to women in Africa.

Closing the gap between Drug discovery & Clinical care

Misala completes that last mile.

Across universities, research labs, and technology transfer offices, promising innovations already exist: diagnostics, devices, therapeutics, and platform technologies that are scientifically credible, protected by intellectual property, and often close to market. But too many of these technologies are never adapted, validated, manufactured, or distributed for African women’s health contexts.

Capital-efficient expansion

A staged model that builds trust and data before expanding into diagnostics and therapeutics.
Local validation, regulatory adaptation, product design, and distribution built for real healthcare environments.

Last-mile execution

Women's health categories where clinical burden, public health priorities, and market demand converge.

Policy-aligned markets

Protected innovations with scientific credibility and commercial potential.

On-patent technologies

Our focus:

We are building tools that help women and clinicians move from uncertainty to clarity, from fragmented care to products designed for the realities they actually face.

Therapeutics adapted for African populations and healthcare systems.

TREAT

Diagnostics designed to bring greater clarity to women's health conditions.

DETECT

Science-backed wellness solutions that support women today.

RESET

A repeatable framework designed to move promising innovations from discovery to real-world care.

Our Framework

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Project Lead

Mumbi Kamatu

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Founder & CEO

Kadryn Kadasia, Ph.D.

Misala is led by a multidisciplinary team across biotechnology, clinical research, product development, manufacturing, and commercial strategy. Our work is shaped by scientific rigour, lived experience, and a deep commitment to building women's health tools that are credible, accessible, and relevant to the realities African women actually face.

Built by scientists, operators, clinicians,
and women who know this gap personally.

Meet the team

We work with academic institutions, technology transfer offices, clinical research sites, investors, and distribution partners who share our commitment to closing the gap in African women's health. If that's you — or if you think it might be — we want to hear from you.

Building the future of women's health requires the right partners.

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