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Erika Bechtold, PhD (she/her/hers)

UpNano, Massachusetts, United States

Erika Bechtold is currently leading US commercial activities as the VP of US Operations for UpNano GmbH. Erika brings 10+ years of early-stage startup and commercial experience, holding a variety of roles at Boston-area Universities as well as at a previous Boston-based biotechnology company Sofregen Medical Inc., a Tufts University spin-out developing injectable products for soft tissue augmentation.

Prior to Erika’s role at UpNano, she was the Director of Technology Commercialization at Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development, supporting commercial activities at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She supported key spin-outs from the Institute, as well as strategic initiatives for the executive team of the Wyss and the Chief Technology Development Officer at Harvard.

Erika earned a doctorate in Biological Chemistry from Wake Forest University and completed her postdoctoral work with Jacquin Niles in the Biological Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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