Elisabet Rosàs Canyelles is a Venture Fellow focusing on exploring new investment themes and incubating new companies that could potentially become series A investmenElisabet also serves as Assistant Director of Impact1, the pediatric & maternal health innovation program at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, after completing the Biodesign Innovation Fellowship. Prior to Biodesign, Elisabet has held scientist roles at Illumina Inc. and the Edelman Lab at the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division. Elisabet’s patents and peer-reviewed research include the development of targeted photodynamic therapy drugs for cancer, microfluidic tools for single-cell electrophoretic protein and nucleic acid analysis, and library preparation and sequencing platforms.

Elisabet earned her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, as a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Fellow, a Fundació “la Caixa” Scholar and a Siebel Scholar, and her bachelor’s degree with honors in Chemical Engineering from the Institut Químic de Sarrià in Barcelona.