Chudzinski-Tavassi Ana Marisa is graduated in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from the Federal University of Parana, UFPR. Masters and Doctorate in Sciences from the Federal University of Sao Paulo-UNIFESP (Molecular Biology program). Doctorate from the Pasteur Institute and INSERM (France). Post-doctorate at the National Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires (ANMBs) - Argentina. She is a PqC-VI scientific researcher at Instituto Butantan where she works as: Director of the Center for Development and Innovation at Instituto Butantan, Director of CENTD: Center of Excellence in Discovery of New Targets-FAPESP / GSK / IBu. She is a Productivity Researcher at CNPq and Associate Researcher at CeTICS-FAPESP. She is an accredited professor in the Postgraduate courses: Molecular Biology at UNIFESP, Interunits in Biotechnology at USP and Postgraduate Studies in Toxinology at Instituto Butantan. She acts as a Titular Member of the Municipal Council of Science and Technology and Innovation of the City of São Paulo and is a member of the Brazilian Pharmaceutical Innovation Network. She serves as an Ad Hoc reviewer for several scientific journals and Funding Agencies. She coordinates projects that aim at a public-private interaction, with support from various development agencies. Experience in the field of Biochemistry, with an emphasis on discovering molecules that act on immunoinflammatory diseases, cell hemostasis and tissue remodeling. She coordinates projects for the discovery and validation of molecular targets in different cell models. Coordinates projects to implement infrastructure for the development of new drugs, such as laboratories with different levels of biosafety, multipurpose laboratories, specialized platforms for the discovery and validation of molecular targets and biorepositories. She works in training in entrepreneurship and innovation through open courses and disciplines in undergraduate and graduate programs.