Gabriella Cruz

Gabriella Cruz is a Scientist I specializing in Protein Engineering at AbbVie since March 2024. Prior experience includes serving as a Scientist I at Lassogen, Inc. from January 2021 to December 2023, where responsibilities involved supervising a synthetic biology team and developing screening strategies for peptide libraries. Previous roles at Lassogen included Senior Research Associate II and Senior Research Associate I, focusing on scaling up flask activities and designing expression plasmids. Gabriella's early career includes a Junior Specialist position at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a Graduate Student Researcher role at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and research positions at COPPE/UFRJ and The University of Texas at Austin. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s in Chemistry of Natural Products from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.