Alyssa Master

Vice President, Sales Enablement and Customer Experience at Nucleus Biologics

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Dr. Alyssa Master is a biotechnology leader with a strong technical background in operations and GMP manufacturing. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President of Operations at Nucleus Biologics where she led process development, quality, and manufacturing teams. Prior to her role as a founding member of Nucleus Biologics, she amassed over a decade of research experience including five years as a lab manager. As a biomaterials engineer, Dr. Master's area of expertise is in the field of nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery, particularly for the delivery of cancer therapeutics. In graduate school, she was the recipient of both the Medtronic Fellowship and the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship. During these fellowships, Dr. Master developed a novel targeted drug delivery platform for intravenous delivery of photodynamic therapy agents. Following graduate school, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy. Dr. Master has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University