Xavier de Mollerat du Jeu

Senior Director, Research and Development at Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA

Speaker

Xavier de Mollerat du Jeu, Ph.D. is the Senior Director of R&D for Cell and Gene Therapy at Thermo Fisher Scientific. His team is responsible for integrating new closed modular platforms into cell therapy production workflows. In his prior role, Xavier and his team developed cell therapy processing platforms and identified new DNA delivery approaches for hard to transfect cell lines and primary/stem cells—inventing Lipofectamine® 3000 and authoring several patents around nucleic acid delivery in the process. Xavier studied molecular biology and plant physiology at the University of Montpellier II and received his Ph.D. in human genetics from Clemson University.