Ex-ISRO Scientist Launches Blockchain-Powered Healthcare Platform ‘PranaChain’

Abhishek and his team tested PranaChain for eight months across India, the USA, Canada, Italy, and France before its official rollout.

Former ISRO scientist Abhishek Chakrala has launched PranaChain, a decentralized blockchain-powered healthcare platform that ensures secure, transparent, and consent-driven exchange of medical data.

Founded in 2025 and recently launched in September, PranaChain operates across India and Canada, integrating patients, hospitals, doctors, labs, pharma research, and insurance providers into one unified digital health ecosystem.

“You'll be surprised to know how many mishaps like these keep happening in the healthcare industry. While unified solutions exist, they often operate in silos. What we've built is an entire secure ecosystem for an individual's health and everything related to it,” says Abhishek Chakrala, founder of PranaChain.

An alumnus of ISRO and former consultant to over twenty global startups, Abhishek earlier won commercialization rights for two NASA patents after topping the NASA Space Race Challenge. He later served as an advisor for the program and became COO of SomnoTech, a Canada-based sleep tech startup.

The idea for PranaChain took shape during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Abhishek noticed critical gaps in how health data was handled. “When people are travelling, carrying their physical health records with them is mostly the last thing on their mind. But when they fall ill in a new city or country, previous records become crucial,” he explains.

He adds, “While the privacy aspect of it is understandable, this whole ordeal becomes really tasking for the patient. They have to run around to get their hands on data that is literally theirs.”

Abhishek and his team tested PranaChain for eight months across India, the USA, Canada, Italy, and France before its official rollout.

Built as a Web3-based medical ERP, PranaChain tackles data silos, consent tracking, and interoperability issues—giving users complete control over their health data through blockchain-powered Electronic Health Records (EHR).

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