Sra. Carla Coll Costa

My professional career began in 2018 with an internship at the Institut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) where I worked in the Innovation Group in Respiratory Infections and Tuberculosis Diagnosis. In the following years, I worked as a research assistant at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. I also had the opportunity to work as Project Manager in Aalto University, where I was involved in an iGEM project, an institution that organizes annual synthetic biology competitions. Thanks to this project, I had the opportunity to work at Aalto University in a startup environment, where I was responsible of raising funding and defending our project in front of the public, as well as supervising the in silico research team. In this project, our startup created and optimized a macrolide antibiotic biosensor for wastewater treatment plants using synthetic biology tools. In 2021, I returned to Barcelona and had the opportunity to do an internship at Bayer as a Product Manager Assistant in the area of prostate cancer. Finally, I joined the Vall d'Hebron Microbiology Department at the end of 2022, where I am responsible for managing all collaborations with the industry and looking for new possible collaborations with companies and startups.