Joelle Zambrano

Joelle Zambrano, PhD, is a Senior Medical Director at AREA 23 on Hudson, an IPG Health Company, with a progressive career that includes roles as Medical Director and Associate Medical Director since August 2021. Prior experience as a Medical Writer and Associate Medical Writer at Envision Pharma Group occurred from January 2020 to August 2021, and as a Life Sciences Premium Editor at Cactus Communications from June 2019 to January 2020. Academic contributions include a Graduate Student Researcher role at the Medical University of South Carolina, where Joelle investigated kinase intracellular signaling in breast cancer and contributed to drug validation studies from July 2014 to June 2019, along with teaching Anatomy and Physiology I as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in early 2019. An initial role as Lab Analyst I at Pace Analytical involved wet chemistry analyses, while previous research at Mote Marine Laboratory focused on characterizing a protein related to cancer cell line growth inhibition. Joelle earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from High Point University.