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Veronica Codesido

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Jobtitle

Co-founder and Manager of Cultivation Department

Company

MIFCO Biosciences

Industry

Biotechnology

Location

Antequera, Spain

Interests

  • Cannabinoid Analysis
  • Cannabis Growing Mediums
  • Cannabis Cultivation
  • Cannabis Distribution Channels
  • Cannabis Infrastructure

Areas

  • Cannabis Business

    MY WORK PREFERENCES
  • Cannabinoid Analysis
  • Cannabis CO2 extraction
  • Cannabis Cultivation
  • Cannabis Data Analysis
  • Cannabis Distribution Channels
  • Cannabis Extraction
  • Cannabis Growing Mediums
  • Cannabis Infrastructure
  • Cannabis Marketing
  • Cannabis Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Cannabis Packaging
  • Cannabis Pest Control
  • Cannabis Politics and Lobbyism
  • Cannabis Research and Development
  • Cannabis Seed-to-Sale Software
  • Cannabis Supply Chain and Logistics
  • CBD Products

  • Innovation Management

    MY WORK PREFERENCES
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Collaboration with Academic Institutions
  • Cross-Border R&D Projects
  • Cross-Industry Innovation Cooperations
  • Customer-Led Innovation
  • Design Thinking
  • From R&D to Connect and Develop (C&D)
  • Innovation Crowdsourcing
  • Innovation Culture
  • Innovation Excellence
  • Open Innovation
  • R&D Networks and Alliances
  • Scenario Planning and Simulation
  • Sustainable Innovations
  • Technology Roadmaps
  • Time-to-Market and Fast Innovation

  • R&D Reporting

    MY WORK PREFERENCES
  • Key Performance Indicators for R&D
  • R&D Metrics
  • R&D Performance Management
  • R&D Target Costing and Cost Tracking
  • Research Result Reporting
  • Risk Management in R&D

  • R&D Strategy

    MY WORK PREFERENCES
  • Project Appraisal and Prioritization
  • R&D Capacity Management
  • R&D Contracts
  • R&D Ethics
  • R&D Outsourcing
  • R&D Planning
  • R&D Portfolio Management
  • R&D Strategy Setting

  • Research

    MY WORK PREFERENCES
  • Blue-Sky Investigations
  • Customer Surveys as R&D Support
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Market Research as R&D Support
  • Product Research as R&D Support
  • Qualitative Research
  • Quantitative Research

Challenges

  • Greenfield Project

    Currently Dealing With | Has Experience With
  • International Expansion

    Currently Dealing With | Has Experience With
  • Major Business Transformation

    Currently Dealing With | Has Experience With
  • Re-Branding

    Currently Dealing With | Has Experience With

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Verónica Codesido Sampedro is doctor in biology for the University of Vigo (2006). Her doctoral thesis was made in the Lourizán Forest Research Institute (CIFAL), being the aim of the thesis stablishing the radiata pine breeding program in Galicia. During her PhD, she had also the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Dag Lindgren at SLU (Umea, Sweden) during few months to learn as much as possible about quantitative genetics, genetic gain, combining ability, etc. Simultaneously, she had the possibility to participate in an ambitious European Project titled TREEBREEDEX with more than 24 European research institutes all around Europe. She enjoyed a postdoctoral position (JAEdoc) in the Agrobiological Research Institute (CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on in Vitro culture and molecular biology of chestnut and oak. Later, she started to work at Aula Dei Research Institute in Zaragoza (Spain) in the sorghum breeding program for obtaining bioethanol for biodiesel production. She also was working in Al Zaidin Research Station in Granada in proteomics of horticultural species. Finally, she was working at the University of Cordoba on an interesting project about the use of biotechnology for improving olive breeding programs, using all the techniques learned before. On Cannabis field, she was the manager of the breeding and cultivation department of the company Phytoplant Research, a research company of Cannabis production, cultivation and extraction. Nowadays, she is cofounder and responsible of cultivation of MIFCO Biosciences, a biotechnological Cannabis company in south Spain, dedicated to in vitro culture, phenohunting and molecular biology for third parties.

Positions

Researcher, breeder
December 1999 - April 2008
Postdoctoral researcher, in vitro culture and molecular biology
May 2008 - April 2011
Postdoctoral researcher, sweet shorghum breeder
May 2011 - September 2012
Postdoctoral researcher, pepper breeder and molecular biologist
September 2012 - December 2014
Postdoctoral researcher, olive tree breeder
January 2015 - July 2016
Manager of Breeding and Cultivation Departmnt
June 2016 - October 2020
Co-founder and Manager of Cultivation Department
October 2020 - Present

Education

Plant breeding - PhD
December 2001 - December 2006
Neurosciences - Master degree
June 1997 - June 1999

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Veronica Codesido, CCO & Co‑Founder at MIFCO Biosciences