Melissa oversees the Penn Dental Medicine, Penn Nursing, School of Veterinary Medicine, Graduate School of Education, Law School, Social Policy & Practice, and the Annenberg School of Communication Licensing team and the Corporate Contracts team at PCI. Prior to joining PCI in 2016, Melissa spent 3.5 years at The Ohio State University’s Technology Commercialization Office overseeing the commercialization of a broad portfolio of life science technologies. Melissa received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine and also held a Postdoctoral Research position at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).