Bio

Sandrine brings a wealth of experience to Micronoma, having worked at large biotech and multinational companies in the life science industry, as well as start-ups. She has assumed different responsibilities from R&D director to leading sales and marketing organizations and excels at preparing companies for successful exits. Before co-founding Micronoma, she was executive director of UC San Diego’s Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI), which she co-led with renowned microbiome researcher, Dr. Rob Knight. Sandrine established a world-class team focused on expanding industry and academic collaborations in the field of microbiome research that resulted in raising more than tens of millions of dollars of financial support through key partnerships toward the application of this science to AI, diet, and nutrition, aging, environment, human disease understanding and more. Sandrine has a talent for assembling efficient and successful teams around innovative products as shown by her work at Helixis, acquired by Illumina, and Mo Bio Labs acquired by QIAGEN.