Dr. Straub is the Associate Director of Corporate Operations at Riva. Previously, she managed the Novo Broad Greenhouse alliance at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as business development and corporate alliances at Harvard University in the Office of Technology Development, where she oversaw, managed, and marketed new therapeutics from basic research to INDs in a wide range of research areas. Previously, she was a research associate at Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, studying the molecular mechanism and genomic evolution in the progression of metastatic melanoma, as well as at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she researched stem cell differentiation and cancer development.
Dr. Straub received a B.S. in Biology from Georgetown College and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.