Irina Ramos, Ph.D

Director of Bioprocess Technology and Engineering at AstraZeneca

Speaker

Irina Ramos is a Director of downstream continuous manufacturing, in the Bioprocess Engineering and Technology group at AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg, MD, USA. She has been a key driver of the technology development and implementation strategy of continuous clinical manufacturing. Her team works to increase fundamental understanding of the various unit operations of drug substance manufacturing. They manage the design, testing and qualification of process equipment and automation on the systems to integrate them. Irina holds a BS/MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Porto (Portugal) and a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (USA). She has been involved with the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) Process Intensification program by leading the Control Strategy workstream. For the past 13 years, Irina’s work in the pharmaceutical industry has spanned from early to late-stage process development and validation, process scalability, CMC and technology transfer to both clinical and commercial manufacturing. Irina has been teaching a class on Downstream Process Development as part of the Professional Master in Biotechnology from UMBC since 2015. She is passionate about mentorship and developing resources to improve the communication of science.