Role: Business Chair

Organisation: UCL

Anna is a senior manager in business and innovation in the Translational Research Office at UCL. She builds partnerships between academia and industry in the healthcare sector, ensuring that academic research can directly benefit patients and clinicians. She focuses on projects that use data science tools and artificial intelligence applied to medicine, benefitting a variety of areas, from diagnostics to surgery, from drug discovery to global health management. 

She combines years of experience in business development and research management with technical scientific expertise as a researcher in chemistry and engineering, both in academia and in industry. 

Anna is interested in responsible innovation in the digital health space. Thanks to her training in foresighting and facilitation techniques, she develops workshops that bring together companies and academic institution to collaborate on joint projects and help businesses to innovate and academics to have an impact on people’s needs addressing societal issues.