Melissa Krebs, Ph.D. is CEO and Founder of GelSana. She is an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, a Board Member of Colorado Bioscience Association, and she is also a Faculty Member of the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine. She has over 45 manuscripts on biopolymers for controlled therapeutic delivery and systems for regenerative medicine. Melissa’s lab at Colorado School of Mines developed these wound-healing materials and she founded GelSana to commercialize and bring these promising materials to the clinic. She has received numerous awards including a Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Early Career Investigator, Colorado School of Mines Inventor of the Year award 2017, Colorado School of Mines Faculty Excellence Award 2020, Women of Mines Leadership Award 2022, and MedTech CEO of the Year Colorado 2023.