Marta Fernández Suárez

Dr. Fernández Suárez has over 10 years of scientific and industry experience commercializing scientific technologies for developing markets. Most recently, Marta served as VP of Assay, R&D at Daktari Diagnostics, a HIV diagnostic company, where she developed a complex immunoassay platform designed for point-of-care medical testing. Prior to her role at Daktari, Dr. Fernández Suárez developed a point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis as a Postdoctoral Research fellow as Massachusetts General Hospital.

Marta obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and received a B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Institut Quimic de Sarria (Barcelona, Spain).