Francesca Fieni, PharmD, PhD, is the founder and CSO of Pano Therapeutics, a platform biotech company she spun out of UCSF focused on clinical development of drugs targeting mitochondrial ion channels to address complex diseases of aging and extend health span. Francesca earned a PharmD and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy and subsequently pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. She was an independent research associate/specialist at the University of California San Francisco before she turned entrepreneur.