Dr. Flocco is Vice President, Global Head of Structural Biology, Biophysics and Fragment-Based Lead Generation at AstraZeneca.
Maria has 20 years of pharmaceutical industry and drug discovery experience. Previous to joining AstraZeneca, she held various positions of increasing responsibility in Pfizer and Pharmacia.
Prior to her career in the pharmaceutical industry, she was a lecturer at the Centre for Structural Biochemistry of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
Maria received a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the City University of New York, and postdoctoral training in X-ray crystallography at the Fox Chase Cancer Centre, Philadelphia, and the Uppsala Biomedical Centre, Sweden.