Sonia Hallen

Sonia Hallen, PhD, is an Associate at LSP, having joined the firm in 2019. Prior to LSP, Sonia founded two companies: InfectDetect, a GSK-funded start-up focused in infectious disease diagnostics, and Digital Biosciences, an artificial intelligence-based clinical trial design platform. Prior to this, Sonia was a strategy consultant at Accenture UKI within the Life Sciences practice where she led operational and commercial strategy for major global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Before joining Accenture, Sonia was a Stem Cell Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, in Melbourne, Australia, where her research focused on rebuilding the heart with smart stem cell biomaterials. Sonia received a BEng in Chemical Engineering from McGill University (CA), an MSc in Biotechnology from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), and her PhD in Regenerative Medicine from Imperial College London (UK).