Shawn (Xueyuan) Wang

Director, Process Development at Kite Pharma

Speaker

Shawn (Xueyuan) Wang is a Director in Kite Pharma Process Development. He leads the raw material group in Kite’s PD focusing on new material development and implementation into Kite clinical programs. He has a B.S. in Biology from University of Science and Technology of China and Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering from the University of Akron. He started his career in a polymer film R&D company, then moved to the pharmaceutical industry to work as single use SME. He has over 13 years’ experience working in single use technology in Genentech and Bayer. He supported the single use facility build up in both Genentech and Bayer before moving to Kite to focus on cell therapy applications