Chief of RAQA and Clinical Global
Wandercraft, France
Maria Ida Iacono received a Master in biomedical engineering in 2007 and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 2011 from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. In 2010 she was awarded a fellowship from the Rocca Foundation to join the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Harvard-MIT HST joint lab). During her tenure at the center, she actively contributed to cutting-edge research projects in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital and Food and Drug Administration. From 2012 to 2018 she served with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with both research and regulatory duties. Since 2018 she works in industry as Director of Regulatory Affairs. She is currently the author of over 50 publications in high impact factor scientific journals, including Nature Scientific Reports, Neuroimage, Frontiers in Physiology, and PlosOne. Her research interests include medical imaging, image processing, robotics, and computational modeling of virtual patients and medical devices.