Vida Rahmatnejad, Ph.D.

Upstream Development Scientist at Alexion

Speaker

Vida Rahmatnejad is an upstream process development scientist at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease. She is the upstream lead for two fusion protein programs, leading the development and optimization of upstream processes for both molecules. Vida is also the harvest development lead at Alexion, where she works on the development and optimization of the harvest clarification strategies. Vida holds a PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where her doctoral research focused on developing a noninvasive bioprocess monitoring system.