Muhammad "Arshad" Chaudhry

Principal Engineer at Alkermes

Speaker

Muhammad “Arshad” Chaudhry is working as a Principal Engineer – biologics process development at Alkermes for the last 1.5 years. Prior to that he has worked in various roles covering a wide range of biologics (monoclonal antibody, allogeneic cell therapy, lenti viral vectors). He has been in cell culture for almost 20 years now and have worked mostly in the upstream process development supporting both early and late stage projects including QbD based small scale model development and process characterization studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemical engineering from University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada having worked under Dr. James Piret’s guidance on embryonic stem cell bioengineering and fed-batch process development projects.