Gabriela Apiou, Ph.D (Program Development Lead TWIN 1-2-3)
Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair in Translational Sciences
Director of Strategic Alliances, Mass General Hospital Research Institute
Director of Translational Research Core, Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
**Massachusetts General Hospital**
Gabriela Apoiu, PhD, is leading the development of new initiatives at the Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute to help to scientists engage in productive collaborations with industry at all stages of their work.
Gabriela Apiou, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers Angers, France in 1998 and her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Health and Life Sciences from University Paris Est Créteil, France in 2010.
Between 1995 and 2011, Dr. Apiou worked for global leaders in the biomedical engineering and pharmaceutical industry where she performed and directed research with a particular focus on inhaled therapeutics and delivery devices.
Since 2011, she has been working at Massachusetts General Hospital as the Director of the Translational Research Core for Wellman Center for Photomedicine and since 2015 as the Director of Strategic Alliances at the Research Institute.
In these roles, she is leading the development of new initiatives to help scientists engage in sound collaborations with industry at all stages of their work.
Dr Apiou and her team have been collaborating with Drs Goldstein and Tobet on the recent program TWIN (Translational Workforce Innovation Network) funded by the NIH-Office for Research on Women’s Health and launched in 2023 to build a biomedical-science pipeline/curricula that incorporates sex differences knowledge into creating a novel form of academic-industry (public-private) partnerships.
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