Carolina Morell-Pérez

Carolina Morell-Pérez is a Program Manager II for Business Development at ATCC, with career progression including roles as Program Manager I and Bacteriology Scientist at ATCC Federal Solutions. Prior experience includes serving as Scientific Program Manager at the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute and a Scientist at Merck, where expertise encompassed 3D cell culture and microbiome research. Additional roles include Associate Scientist positions at Bioverativ and Biogen, focusing on high throughput screening and assay development. Early career experience features a Research Assistant role at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, along with teaching responsibilities, and an Undergraduate Research Assistant position at the University of Puerto Rico. Carolina holds a Master’s Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Bachelor's Degree in Microbiology from the University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo, supplemented by an exchange program in Food Microbiology and Statistics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.