Summary

  • 15+ years scientific experience, from bench experiments to bioinformatics to clinical studies

  • Versatile and purpose-driven leader with international management experience

  • Looking to innovate at the intersection of informatics, medicine, and technology

  • Excited about bringing novel diagnostics and therapeutics into routine clinical use

  • Passionate about making sense of data for advancing science, businesses, and people

  • Care deeply about coaching, building effective teams, and supporting STEM education

Education

  • Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Harvard-MIT HST

  • B.S. in Biological Engineering, Minor in Mathematics, MIT

  • B.S. in Management Science, Minor in Biology, MIT

Experience

  • Clinical sequencing and informatics for somatic oncology at Roche Sequencing

  • Human microbiome engineering at Harvard in George Church's lab

  • Diagnostic technology development at startup project (Quantamerix)

  • Biophysics of protein-ion binding at Genentech

  • Multivariate calibration for crystallization at Merck

  • Protein modeling at MIT

  • Cardiac biomechanics at UCSF

  • Mitochondrial toxicity at Roche

  • Technical entrepreneurship research at MIT Sloan

  • Spinal cord injury market research at InVivo Therapeutics

  • Molecular diagnostics at Agilent Technologies

  • Hematopoietic stem cells at Stanford in Irv Weissman's lab

Awards

  • 2020 Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Ambassador at Roche

  • 2019 Scientific and Technical Expert Program at Roche & Mannheim Business School

  • 2018 Rising Star of the Year, Women in IT Silicon Valley Awards

  • 2012 Harvard Innovation Lab President’s Challenge Finalist

  • 2012 MIT $100K Business Plan Competition Semi-Finalist

  • 2010 MIT Neurometrix Presidential Graduate Fellowship

  • 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

  • 2009 Merck Engineering and Technology Fellowship

  • 2006 National Merit Finalist and Scholar

  • 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist in Biochemistry

  • 2005 Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science & Technology Semifinalist