Cipto Kokadir is a scientist, an engineer and a medical researcher. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley, United States—where he was the president of BISA (Berkeley Indonesian Student Association)—with BSc magna cum laude (high honors) in double major Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Engineering. He attended graduate school in Engineering Management at Stanford University and did research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, before starting biotech nutraceutical Nucleus Farma, an FDA registered facility, whose flagship product: Onoiwa®—a peptide-preparation of Channa striata extract. He holds numerous patents globally, mainly in biotechnology innovations.