Crystal D’Silva

Preclinical Technical Lead/Associate Director at Baxter

Speaker

Crystal D’Silva is a Biocompatibility subject matter expert at Baxter International and based in Brussels, Belgium. Currently, she acts as preclinical lead for Baxter’s acute renal and nutrition product portfolios where she engages with a cross-functional team of internal and external stakeholders to conduct biological risk evaluations according to global guidelines. Additionally, she co-chairs an internal task force with a focus on hemocompatibility, in vitro toxicology, and the dissemination of lessons learned from regulatory submissions. She is actively involved in standard development as a member of the ISO/TC 194 biological and clinical evaluation of medical devices technical committee and she is also a member of the European society of toxicology in vitro (ESTIV) and the Belgian society of toxicology and ecotoxicology (BELTOX). She has a PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the Hospital for Sick Children (Ontario, Canada), and an MSc in Pathology and Molecular Medicine from Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada)