Marielena Mata

Company: Pfizer

Job title: Senior Director & Diagnostic Lead

Bio:

Marielena Mata, Ph.D. is Director and Diagnostic Lead at Pfizer, where she Leads the development and commercialization efforts of companion diagnostics for Oncology assets from early to late development.
Prior to Pfizer, Dr. Mata was Head of Personalized Medicine and Companion Diagnostics at GSK where she was responsible for implementation of the Precision Medicine strategy across the GSK portfolio encompassing technical, development, regulatory, commercial, IP and business development efforts. Previously, at Janssen R&D, Inc. Dr. Mata was responsible for the design and implementation of biomarker strategies for Oncology assets, where she led the development of Circulating Tumor Cell based assays as companion diagnostics as well as the development of next generation circulating tumor cell isolation technologies based on microfluidics. Earlier, she established and managed the Biomarkers biobank. In addition to her work in Oncology drug development, Maty, as she is known, has a strong interest in women’s career development and mentorship and is the recipient of the AWIS-PHL Elizabeth Bingham Mentoring Award. Dr. Mata obtained a B.A. in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training in Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania.