Cecilia Sanchez

Dr. Sanchez has over 25 years of research experience in genetics and cellular and molecular biology. Before joining Obatala, Dr. Sanchez worked for three years as team lead scientist for Innovation at bioMerieux Inc, in Salt Lake City. At bioMerieux, Dr. Sanchez obtained significant experience in broad aspects of new product development and trained in strategies for Drugs and Medical Device development at MIT.

Dr. Sanchez completed her undergraduate training in Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine in Colombia. She obtained her master’s in biology-Health in Montpellier, France. She earned her PhD in Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, working under the world-renowned Dr. Pierre Chambon, founder of the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in France. Dr. Sanchez came to New Orleans in 2002 to take a post-doctoral position at Tulane University. She completed post-doctoral trainings at Tulane in epigenetics, mesenchymal stem cells, and pulmonary and aging biology. Dr. Sanchez held a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Tulane University until 2017, directing her laboratory, she obtained funding support from NIH and foundation grants, she actively published manuscripts and book chapters, mentored graduate students and served in a various internal and external academic and research committees and established productive collaborations with academic teams and industry, before relocating to Salt Lake. She recently returned to New Orleans to join Obatala Sciences.