Abeona Therapeutics Evaluates a Scalable Suspension-based Platform for Production of Viral Vector for MPS-IIIA

Dr. Maples has more than 35 years’ experience in international biotechnology, focused on cell and gene therapies, including twelve years at Baxter Healthcare prior to embarking on several business initiatives, exploring clinical and commercial applications of pioneering cell and gene therapies for inherited diseases and cancers. He has worn “many hats” in his career, providing leadership in product development, manufacturing, quality assurance, technical marketing support, regulatory and clinical affairs, but his central focus has been product/process development.

Dr. Maples has teamed to design, construct and or operate more than ten cell and gene therapy processing centers (ex. NIH), gene/cell therapy clinics and GMP manufacturing facilities for advanced biologics. He has held 2 CRADAs with NIH. He has provided professional guidance to universities, private foundations, government bodies, professional societies, public and private companies. Dr. Maples has been on the editorial board of BioProcessing Journal for eighteen years. He has 47 publications, over 170 abstracts and presentations and 17 issued US patents.

Anne MacIntyre is a Senior Scientist in the Upstream R&D BioProcessing group at Pall Corporation in Westborough, MA. Anne studied Biochemistry at Northeastern University and has over 15 years of experience in mammalian upstream process and product development. Since joining Pall in 2019, Anne has worked primarily on developing gene therapy applications and technologies in the iCELLis™ and Allegro™ STR bioreactors platforms.