Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff is the Chief Executive Officer at Cytonome Inc. She is also a member of the Minority Affairs Committee of American Society for Cell Biology and Chair of the Board of Trustees for Pine Manor College. Dr. Villa-Komaroff is currently serving on the National Academies of Science and National Academy of Engineering Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the National Research Council Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline.

Prior to her current position, Dr. Villa-Komaroff served as Vice President for Research at Northwestern University and Vice President for Research and Chief Operating Officer of the Whitehead Institute for Biochemical Research. She has also held research positions at MIT, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Villa-Komaroff was only the third Mexican-American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate degree in the sciences and has been active in giving back to the Hispanic community. She is a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), of which she has served as a board member and vice president. Her involvement with the Hispanic scientific community has earned her a spot in the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Hall of Fame.

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