Alina Bell
About Alina Bell
Alina Bell is a Senior Business Analyst specializing in LIMS and ELN at Sana Biotechnology, Inc., where she has worked since 2020. She has extensive experience in informatics, having held positions at Novartis and Genentech, and holds a B.S. in Biopsychology from UC Santa Barbara.
Current Role at Sana Biotechnology
Alina Bell serves as a Senior Business Analyst for LIMS and ELN at Sana Biotechnology, Inc. since 2020. In this role, she provides support for Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), ensuring that foundational data infrastructure needs are met. She collaborates with subject matter experts, computational engineering, and computational biology teams to support scalable science initiatives. Additionally, she facilitates ontology and data model design discussions and plays a key role in release announcements and change management for data infrastructure projects.
Previous Experience at Novartis
Alina Bell has extensive experience at Novartis, where she worked in various roles from 2008 to 2018. Initially, she served as an Operations Coordinator in the Informatics Department for four months in 2008. She then transitioned to the role of Senior Informatics Analyst, where she contributed for seven years until 2018. During her time at Novartis, she was involved in projects that required a strong understanding of informatics and data management.
Experience at Genentech
From 2018 to 2020, Alina Bell worked as a Senior Informatics Specialist at Genentech in South San Francisco. In this position, she applied her informatics expertise to support various initiatives within the organization. Her role involved collaborating with teams to enhance data management practices and improve operational efficiency.
Education and Academic Background
Alina Bell studied at UC Santa Barbara, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biopsychology with a Minor in French from 2001 to 2005. She also studied at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, achieving a French Minor in 2003 for 11 months. Her educational background provides a strong foundation for her work in informatics and data analysis.