ImpaktBio

Aneesa is a research scientist by training, with an academic career spanning microbiology, immunology and most recently computational genomics.

After a brief stint as a PhD student, Aneesa mastered out of her doctoral program and pivoted to commercial data science. Her domain expertise has challenged her to exploit her rigorous training and curiosity of biological systems to generate impact beyond academia. As a result, she now finds her professional career sitting at the intersection of biology, data and engineering.

Since her PhD training equipped her with a deep understanding of genomics data and the challenges scientists face working at scale, her professional career has evolved beyond being a scientist to assuming the role of an engineer that builds and supports scalable, reproducible systems/infrastructure to enable scientists.

At this point in Aneesa’s career, science impact means a great deal to her. This served as motivation for her to create her own consulting company called ImpaktBio, LLC in 2025. To date she has worked with several nonprofits, tech startups and large enterprise businesses across the US.

Bolstered by a strong desire to bridge inclusive scientific community, in 2025 she also co-founded a nonprofit called The Black Life Sciences Collective, geared towards creating space and resources for life science professionals of African descent to learn and grow together.

In parallel, she has not forgotten about her Dominican roots. Her most recent endeavor has involved working with the Chief Education Office for Science & Technology Education, to create STEM pipeline programming and scholarship opportunities for Dominican students.

Aneesa finds great joy in enabling and empowering the next generation of scientists and engineers. Her North Star: making biology, data and engineering accessible to all.