Gabriela Lee is a Associate Director, Uc Davis Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine at Uc Davis. She possess expertise in strategy, product management, entrepreneurship, program management, strategic planning and 36 more skills. She is proficient in Romanian. Colleagues describe her as "I have known and worked closely with Gabriela Lee for over 10 years at UC Davis and the Center for Biophotonics. I have absolutely the highest regard for her professionalism, expertise, work ethic, creativity, and organizational and communication skills. As the Chief Knowledge Transfer Officer she acted as the main interface between the Center and outside academic, industry, and public organizations. As such, she has been responsible for initiating many of the collaborative relationships that contributed significantly to the success of the Center. I want to particularly emphasize how impressive Gabriela’s abilities are in the areas of University-Industry contract research and technology transfer. Her background in Biomedical Engineering (MS) and Business Administration (MBA) is ideally suited for this role. Here she displayed great initiative and energy in discovering opportunities, engaging companies, and then shepherding the co-development of new potential commercial products based on University originated technology. She has also been the driving force for organizing and executing a number of large grant applications (and then masterfully managing operations of the awarded grants) that have kept the Center in business after the main NSF grant expired. In summary, I can sincerely say I have enjoyed every minute of working with this very talented and energetic individual." and "Gabriela is the best kept secret in catalyzing medical innovation at UC Davis! Case in point: her instrumental role in the Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program at UC Davis. Her persistence and effectiveness in encouraging collaboration and cooperation, excellent organizational skills and consistent follow through, and resourcefulness made it possible for several of us without prior exposure to entrepreneurship to engage in the process of moving innovative ideas from the bench to the clinic. She connected our team with mentors who in turn helped to motivate us to develop a viable commercialization plan. Her approachability, responsiveness, and encouragement would be invaluable in building a stable bridge of communication at the interface of those in engineering/science and business -- in any program geared for translating ideas into reality."