IVELISSE SANCHEZ
Barcelona
Summary
Dynamic leader with a proven track record at BIOINTAXIS S.L., excelling in strategic planning and partnership building. Adept at managing innovation and driving product development, I leverage strong problem-solving skills to enhance organizational efficiency and compliance, while fostering collaboration among diverse teams to achieve ambitious goals.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
BIOINTAXIS S.L.
Barcelona
07.2018 - Current
- Make strategic decisions to enhance and enforce product development in line with the business mission.
- Collaborate with other executive partners to establish long-term goals, strategies, and company policies.
- Build relationships with strategic partners for effective product development opportunities.
- Provide organizational leadership to over six professionals.
- Devise strategic improvements to resolve scientific and technical issues, and propose necessary operational updates.
- Uphold all company guidelines, compliance standards, and quality control procedures, as advised by a regulatory expert.
- Establish a new workflow for scientific professionals, technical staff, and employee training processes to improve efficiency.
- Create content for the company's web standing page and social network presence.
- Manage intellectual property by actively participating in the generation of patents and NDAs.
- Facilitate contract negotiations to the point of signature.
Principal Investigator, Co-Director Functional Biology and Experimental Therapies Lab
Health Sciences Research Institute
Badalona
08.2009 - Current
- Organize and prioritize work to optimize the team workflows and use of resources
- Improve and standardize training for current and future employees to enhance performance.
- Manage 5 professional and technical staff
- Write and submit scientific publications, reports, and grants.
- Present work at professional meetings.
- Direct master's and doctoral theses.
Assistant Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology Department, Boston University School of Medicine
Boston
04.2003 - 08.2009
- Actively participated in departmental committee activities, including the interview and evaluation of prospective graduate students and medical school applicants.
- Managed three technical staff members and student trainees.
- Participated in faculty meetings to discuss department strategy.
- Wrote grants and reports.
- Organized the monthly seminar of the department.
- Taught the core Medical Histology course and various seminar courses to medical and graduate students.
- Evaluated student progress, graded assignments, administered tests, and provided students with feedback.
- Directed theses and trained graduate students in a master's program.
Instructor and Research Fellow
Cell Biology Department, Harvard Medical School
Boston
08.1998 - 04.2003
- Proposed, designed, and implemented research focused on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in ALS and Huntington's disease.
- Implemented various molecular biology and biochemistry techniques to conduct research on protein aggregation, cell death, and neurodegeneration using mouse and cell models.
- Produced research papers for highly cited international journals, oral presentations, and grants to fund the research.
- Supervised and trained graduate and medical students.
- Evaluated and analyzed data from research studies to validate conclusions.
- Wrote papers for publication, reports, and grants
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston
05.1993 - 05.1998
- Designed and performed experiments focused on the cytoskeleton, myelin signaling, and axon caliber in cell and mouse models.
- Mentored and trained students
- Generated and analyzed data
- Produced papers of high-impact and presented results in national and international meetings
Education
Certificate - No Code Al And Machine Learning
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professional Education School, Boston, US01-2025
Gene Therapy (Prof. Xandra Brakefield)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, US01-2000
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Department of Psychiatry
McLean Hospital And Harvard Medical School
Boston, US05.1998
Ph.D. - Cell and Molecular Biology
Graduate Center City University of New York
USPh.D. - Biology (homologated)
Universitat Autónoma Barcelona
Barcelona, SpainSkills
- Executive leadership
- Strategic planning and coordination
- Partnership building
- Contract negotiation
- Board collaboration
- Corporate governance
- Innovation management
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Project management
Accomplishments
- Co-inventor 1 EP granted patent; 2 International Patents; 4 applications.
- Co-PI granted Grants to Biointaxis.
- Co-designed Gene therapy vector.
- Implemented the Preclinical efficacy PoC.
- Early CMC process development.
- Over 30 peer reviewed papers in high-impact Journals, Nature, Neuron, Neurology and others.
- 2324 total citations.
- Average 71 citations/paper.
- 24 International and 45 National presentations.
- Director of 2 Doctoral thesis and 9 masters.
- Chaired session in Society for Neuroscience.
Languages
English, Spanish
First Language
Timeline
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
BIOINTAXIS S.L.
07.2018 - Current
Principal Investigator, Co-Director Functional Biology and Experimental Therapies Lab
Health Sciences Research Institute
08.2009 - Current
Assistant Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology Department, Boston University School of Medicine
04.2003 - 08.2009
Instructor and Research Fellow
Cell Biology Department, Harvard Medical School
08.1998 - 04.2003
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
05.1993 - 05.1998
Certificate - No Code Al And Machine Learning
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)
Gene Therapy (Prof. Xandra Brakefield)
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Department of Psychiatry
McLean Hospital And Harvard Medical School
Ph.D. - Cell and Molecular Biology
Graduate Center City University of New York
Ph.D. - Biology (homologated)
Universitat Autónoma Barcelona
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