Karla Sanchez

Karla is Head of Biomedical Engineering at Cambridge Design Partnership, working in the Drug Delivery, Medical Therapy, and Diagnostics subsectors. She is a mathematical modeller, researcher and bioengineer with over 13 years of experience in medical product development. She obtained her PhD from Imperial College London at the Physiological Fluids Group where she focused on blood flow of the cerebral vasculature and distribution of cerebrospinal fluid. She has also worked alongside clinicians and academics to study blood flow in the kidney and complications of chronic kidney disease. In her industry career she has managed several successful projects, launching a large range of infusion sets, orthopaedic and surgical devices. She holds an honorary visiting researcher position at Imperial College London.