Events Team

Luanys is a business development and sales professional with more than 15 years of experience in the science and pharmaceutical industry. From a young age, she was fascinated by science which lead her to complete a Bachelors degree in Chemistry (Venezuela) and a Masters degree in Biotechnology from the University of Guelph (Ontario). She considers herself an "assiduous Philomath", nature, animal lover and a big fan of indoor and outdoor cycling. Luanys believes it is fundamental to promote advances in STEM with emphasis on women and young girls. 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luanys-villate-57481414/

 Payal is a product development scientist working on technology that can reduce time to results for Sepsis. She earned her PhD in Epigenetic events in Cancer from Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain and did her BSc and Master by Research from England focusing mainly on molecular biology and genomics. She has worked across disciplines in developmental biology and cancer at Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK before transitioning to industry where she worked in immune-oncology, regenerative medicine and now in molecular diagnostics. Payal is a strong believer of gender equality and social and economic reforms that can reduce the gender gap and is currently focusing on engaging partners as part of business development for WSTEM TO.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/payal-jain-phd-96961710a/

 Farah is a business development associate with a background in molecular biology and biotechnology. She has work experience in diverse fields including pharma, public health nonprofits and STEM Ed startups. She is always curious about new emerging technologies and how they are or can be channeled to solve pressing problems. In between camping and fruit-picking, Farah enjoys learning about a new topic or a skill and fostering cats. 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/farahelzarkout/

 Somi is an experienced scientist with academic and industry skilled in leading research projects, product development and management mostly in biotech and health sciences. 

With a PhD in ChemInformatics, and Postdoc in Bioinformatics (USA), Somi is currently a Scientist (Data and Machine learning) at Mount Sinai Health working on innovative technologies for advancing medicine in digital pathology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/somiafiuni/

  Anna is a Scientist at Qvella corporation working on life-saving innovative technologies. After 2 Ms.c degrees (Kyiv, Ukraine, and Bern, Switzerland), Ph.D. degree (Basel, Switzerland) and Postdoc (Boston, USA), Anna focusses on the real-world challenges of the patient-focused environment. What sets her apart is a passion and desire for more in her life trying to say YES to every chance.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-khimchenko/