Gabriela Apiou, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers Angers, France in 1998 and her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Health and Life Sciences from University Paris Est Créteil, France in 2010. Between 1995 and 2011, Dr. Apiou worked for global leaders in the biomedical engineering and pharmaceutical industry where she performed and directed research with a particular focus on inhaled therapeutics and delivery devices. Since 2011, she has been working at Massachusetts General Hospital as the Director of the Translational Research Core for Wellman Center for Photomedicine and since 2015 as the Director of Strategic Alliances at the Research Institute. In these roles, she is leading the development of new initiatives to help scientists engage in sound collaborations with industry at all stages of their work.