Navigating current translational challenges in establishing clinical CAR T cell therapy manufacture

Dr. Mark Dudley is a Senior Vice President at Adaptimmune Therapeutics, a leader in genetically modified T cell therapies for solid cancers, where he is responsible for manufacturing and development. Dr. Dudley has been a pioneer in the field of immunotherapy manufacturing, and has developed and implemented innovative early process design with accompanying analytics for multiple therapies. Previously, as Director of New Cell Products in the Cell and Gene Therapies division of Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp, Dr Dudley was responsible for establishing scalable, GMP-compliant production strategies and facilitating globalization of CAR-T products and platforms.

As Director of the Cell Manufacturing Facility at the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute, NIH, in Bethesda, MD, Dr Dudley investigated tumor rejection antigens, T cell specificity and function, and methods for the generation and administration to patients of T cell therapies. His work has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, and he is co-author on numerous seminal papers including early tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes studies demonstrating that adoptive T-cell transfer has tumor eradicating potential. Dr. Dudley earned a PhD in Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and had post-doctoral fellowships at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ME.