Gabby Tender is an Associate Program Officer for Microbiome Products at the Gates Foundation on the Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health team.
Tender focuses on gut-directed interventions to improve pregnancy, fetal, and childhood outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
She recently received her PhD in Chemistry at Stanford University in the laboratory of Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi as both an NSF GFRP and Hertz Foundation Fellow. Her PhD focused on glycobiology and mucin biology, including novel approaches to specifically degrade cancer-associated mucins.