About Maria Luisa Pineda

Dr. Maria Luisa Pineda is a highly motivated, bilingual doctor with over 10 years of scientific experience, keen insight into business and organization building, excellent leadership skills balancing strategic thinking and logic.

Ambitious and looking forward to pairing a solid knowledge of science with playing a key role in decision-making, while adding significant value to a business.

For her undergraduate studies Maria was awarded an endowment of $2 million dollars from the Goizueta Foundation and was a NIH fellow with the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC U*STAR) Award. Maria recently received her Ph.D. from the prestigious Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as an Arnold and Mabel Beckman graduate student and a William Randolph Hearst foundation scholar. After graduating, she acquired experience in investment of technology and life science startup companies at Canrock Ventures and Golden Seeds, LLC. Maria has recently started a bioinformatics start-up company spinout of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as the Co-founder and CEO.