Muhammad "Arshad" Chaudhry

Director, Cell Line and Upstream Process Development, Disc Medicine. at Disc Medicine

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Muhammad “Arshad” Chaudhry is working as Director – cell line and upstream process development at Disc Medicine, Watertown, MA for the last 1.5 years. Prior to that he has worked in various roles covering a wide range of biologics (monoclonal antibody, fusion proteins, allogeneic cell therapy, lenti-viral vectors). He has been in cell culture for more than 20 years now and have worked mostly in the cell line and bioreactor process development supporting both early and late-stage projects including QbD based scale-down model development, process characterization studies, and process validation (PPQ) work for BLA filing. 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.