Lianchun Fan, Ph D.

Lianchun is a member of Biological Development and Launching (BDL) organization under Operation in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has over 20 years’ experience as a commercial cell line and process development/CMC/manufacture scientist working at Eli Lilly, BMS and AbbVie. Lianchun’ s research interests include host cell line engineering, system biology, high-throughput automation, and advanced technologies such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for cell bank genetic characterization and adventitious viral testing. Most recently, Lianchun’ s research has focused on multi-specific modality production platform development and leading the Early Biologics Excellence center at PDST with a focus on Single cycle development processes.