Dr Maria Chatzou Dunford

Ex-President

CEO & Founder, Lifebit Biotech Ltd

Dr. Maria Chatzou holds a PhD in Biomedicine, MSc in Bioinformatics and BSc in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics. She is a biotech innovator and a proud geek, expert in bioinformatics, medical informatics and high performance computing (HPC). She is also a passionate entrepreneur. She has already founded two companies, Innovation Forum Barcelona and the Techstars-backed Lifebit.

As a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, Spain, she designed and deployed tools and methods that facilitate the analysis of Big Biomedical Data, allow for biological discoveries, and promote personalised medicine. She was also part of the developing team of Nextflow, a programming framework that is revolutionising the computational analysis of genomic data.

Dr. Chatzou is a frequent industry speaker and has spoken on the subject of HPC, Cloud & Big Data, Genomics Workflows, Personalized Medicine, Women in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups and Deep Tech Innovation in many international conferences.

Other team Members

Mahmoud (Tourkey) Mohamed

Business Development Associate

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Professor Nabeel Affara

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Cristina Gimenez Vives

Global Coordinator IMAGINE IF!

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Dr Barbara Domayne-Hayman

Industry Advisory Board Member

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Narges Sheikhansari

Community Manager

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