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Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise today named Victoria Gonzalez as president and chief executive officer, effective April 15. She succeeds Robert Calcaterra whose retirement was previously announced.

Gonzalez joins the Nidus Center with more than 20 years experience with early-stage startup companies and Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, she was interim CEO of Graphic Surgery LLC, a surgery benefits management company in St. Louis. Previously, she had been managing partner and founder of Sonas Life Technologies. There, she helped provide management, strategy, fundraising, marketing, and goal setting for early-stage and development-stage companies such as Control Diabetes, Inc., a disease-management startup company, and for APT Therapeutics, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical discovery company. She also worked for Monsanto Company and DuPont Company.

She holds a B.S. degree in engineering from Texas A&M and an MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

About Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise

Nidus Center is a nonprofit plant and life sciences incubator in St. Louis, serving entrepreneur clients who are refining and preparing new technologies for market. This center is part of an overall effort to promote the St. Louis region as a world-class leader in biotechnology and plant sciences and to create startup companies to be located in St. Louis.

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