Associate Director for Business Development and Portfolio Management at Columbia University’s Technology Transfer office and Program Manager for Columbia’s CTSA-funded Translational Therapeutics Accelerator.
In her current role, Maria works with the technology licensing team to strategise, market and commercialize innovations from Columbia Investigators across research sectors, manages Columbia’s strategic partnerships with Industry as well as guides development of life science accelerators. Maria is also a co-instructor for the lab-to-Market Life Science Accelerator Boot Camp which provides specialized frameworks in drug development to faculty led teams with an interest in commercialisation.
Maria received her PhD in Molecular Medicine & Translational Science and MBA from Wake Forest University followed by post doctorate training in Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Tech .