Jie Zhu, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Cell Culture and Fermentation Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals at AstraZeneca

Jie Zhu received her PhD from the Division of Biological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston followed by three years of postdoc training at the Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institutes, National Institutes of Health. She joined MedImmune/AstraZeneca in 2005 with expertise in the fields of genetic recombination, DNA repair and carcinogenesis.  Now she leads a team of scientists responsible for the generation of clinical candidate cell lines for the manufacture of therapeutic proteins and developing enabling novel expression technologies.