Dr Daniela Marino is the Co-Founder and CEO of CUTISS AG. Daniela holds a Master in Biotechnology from the University of Milano and a PhD in Sciences from ETH Zurich. With her focus on vascular and stem cell biology, in 2009 she joined the Tissue Biology Research Unit of the University of Zurich as a post doc and project manager, to then transition to a project co-leader and business developer role at the start-up accelerator Wyss Zurich. In 2017, on the back end of the safety readout for denovoSkin™, she co-founded CUTISS AG, to further develop the bio-engineered skin equivalent towards commercialization. Among other recognitions, Daniela was awarded the Female Innovator of the Year in 2019