Elena Lovo is the Head of Life Sciences for the EMEA region within the JPM Commercial Bank, Innovation Economy. Prior to joining the Commercial Bank, Elena was on the Healthcare Investment Banking team at JPM for five years, where she worked with biotech companies in EMEA, helping her clients on strategic transactions and with their capital formation execution. Elena also worked on Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Healthcare coverage team prior to joining the firm. Before Elena began her banking career, she worked in consulting at Decision Resources and Pharma ventures, supporting pharma, MedTech, health tech and biotech clients on a broad spectrum of strategic projects, and on licensing and sell-side transactions. Elena holds a Ph. D in Immunology, as well as a master’s degree in Medical Biotechnologies and a bachelor’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnologies and worked in Baltimore, US, with Prof. Gallo on HIV research during her academic career.