Rachel Levine is Head of Communications and Patient Advocacy for Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a Novartis company. Prior to joining AAA in 2016, Rachel spent eight years at Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, as Director of Corporate Development and Communications and then as Vice President of Investor Relations. During her tenure, she led financing activities, investor and media relations, and internal communications, and supported business development and government relations activities. Rachel has specialized in the healthcare sector (including biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, managed care, healthcare services, and medical device and delivery) since 2000. From 2005 to 2007, Rachel served as Managing Director for Grayling, a global integrated communications firm and division of Huntsworth PLC. Before this, she was Managing Director at The Anne McBride Company, a global investor and public relations advisory. Rachel holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration, with honors from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA).