Marianna Stamou is employed as a Project Toxicologist at AstraZeneca in Boston, where she had been elading the nonclinical safety strategy for a number of projects across modalities. She received her doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of California, Davis in 2015, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Toxicology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland from 2015-2017, before moving to initially to Sweden and then to Boston, US to work at AstraZeneca as a toxicologist.
Marianna is a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology since 2021, and an author/co-author of 21 peer-reviewed publications and one book chapter. Marianna also holds an MBA, an MSc in Pharmaceutical Production and Quality Control, and an MEng in Chemical Engineering. Prior to her PhD, she worked for several years as an analytical chemist in the Federal Sports Drug Testing Laboratory of Athens.
Marianna has been a member of SOT since 2011 and has been actively involved in the following capacities: NorCal SOT graduate student representative (2012-2013), Graduate Student Leadership Committee (GLASC) secretary (2012-2013), GSLC Professional Development Subcommittee Chair (2013-2014), Treasurer of the Postdoctoral Assembly (PDA) Executive Board (2017 - 2018), DDTSS Councilor (2019 – 2020), DDTSS Secretary/Treasurer (2021-2023), and is currently serving as the DDTSS VP Elect. During this time, Marianna has organized and co-chaired a Scientific Session at the 2014 SOT annual meeting as well as a number of SOT-sponsored scientific and career-focused webinars. She has also volunteered for the SOT Continuing Education Courses and served as a facilitator and member of the Organizing Committee of the SOT Mentoring Breakfast.
In her spare time Marianna enjoys traveling to visit family, running, dancing, archery and reading.