Dr Melisa Lopez-Anton, UPenn MedTech Portfolio Director
Postdoc at Mount Sinai Hospital

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Melisa Lopez-Anton is a Ph.D. biomedical professional and entrepreneur with technical and diligence background in cancer and fibrosis. Her scientific excellence has been recognized by prestigious European awards including the Marie Curie for her Ph.D. at Cardiff University and the Leonardo da Vinci to work at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Melisa complete her postdoc at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, in oncology on melanoma research. She was a venture capital fellow at FundRx in New York, where she helped to conduct scientific and market due diligence for life science startups. Dr Lopez-Anton is leading the UPenn biotech and medtech portfolio at the UPenn Center for Innovation and serves on multiple startup boards. Melisa is chair of the Spanish Women Scientists in USA (MECUSA) where she leads courses on Entrepreneurship addressed to women scientists’ and promotes women’s visibility.