Catherine Lee May

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Catherine joins NexGenLab with more than 20 years of experience leading lab operations including project and resource management, supply chain, and extensive partnering with vendors and sales representatives. She is an accomplished, effective, and compassionate leader with outstanding organizational, management and mentoring skills. Catherine also has extensive experience in training young scientists at the bench and coaching them to overcome interpersonal, career and research-related challenges.

PERSONAL

Catherine was born in Taiwan and moved to Irvine California with her family where she attended high school. Growing up in a musical family, Catherine is an accomplished pianist and enjoys going to concerts and musicals. She also loves cooking and travel. Most of her career was spent in Pennsylvania where she now resides in Berwyn, a Philadelphia suburb, with her husband and children.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Catherine holds a Ph.D. in biology, having conducted research in muscle and eye development at The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Her bachelor’s degree is also in biology from Hopkins. By training, Catherine is a developmental and molecular biologist with expertise in metabolic diseases of the digestive system including diabetes. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Principal Investigator at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she led NIH-funded laboratory research programs, trained young scientists, and published more than 40 research papers. Most recently, Catherine was a Senior Director at Vivodyne, a VC-backed organ-on-a-chip startup, where she led all phases of laboratory operations from inception through relocation and scale-up. Her previous job titles include Senior Scientist at Johnson & Johnson and Assistant Director of Student-Alumni Networking at the University of Pennsylvania.

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