City College of New York (CUNY)

Christina Pellicane serves as the Manager of the NYC Regional Innovation Node, a $3.74M consortium of CUNY, NYU, and Columbia funded by NSF Innovation Corps. In this position, she manages the daily operations of NYCRIN and its other collaborative programs including helping form startup teams, delivering regional trainings and interacting with key partners in industry, government and academia. Prior to joining NYCRIN, Ms. Pellicane served as the Clinical Business Administrator and Study Monitor at AlcheraBio, a veterinary CRO. As a Research Associate at the biotech startup Venenum Biodesign, she worked with scientists to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutics. Ms. Pellicane is an experienced biotechnologist and is listed as co-inventor on industrial patents. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Animal Science from the University of Georgia as well as a Master of Business and Science with a concentration in Biotechnology and Genomics from Rutgers University.