Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Chief Executive Officer, Cytonome

Lydia Villa-Komaroff is the Chief Executive Officer at Cytonome. During her 20 year research career, Dr. Villa-Komaroff has held positions at MIT, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Harvard Medical School.  As a science administrator, she has been VP for Research at Northwestern University in Illinois and the Vice President for Research and Chief Operating Officer of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA.  She also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Transkaryotic Therapies. Dr.Villa-Komaroff received her AB from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from MIT. She has spent more than 20 years researching genes, mainly concentrating on protein synthesis, cell development, and growth mutations.