Obatala® is pleased to announce it has hired Cecilia Sanchez, PhD, as its new VP of R&D.Before joining Obatala, Dr. Sanchez worked for three years as team lead scientist for Innovation at bioMerieux Inc, in Salt Lake City. Dr. Sanchez completed her undergraduate training in Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine in Colombia. She obtained her master’s in biology-Health in Montpellier, France and earned her PhD in Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France. Dr. Sanchez came to New Orleans in 2002 to take a post-doctoral position at Tulane University.