Instructors
Luman Wing, PhD
Consultant, Nonclinical, Management Consultants, United States
As a Vice President, Technical for Regulatory Consulting at Parexel International, Dr. Wing leads the international team of nonclinical regulatory consultants and is a member of the Cell and Gene Therapy Center of Excellence. Prior to joining Parexel, he served as a lead nonclinical consultant in cell and gene therapies with Cardinal Health for 12 years. As a director at several early stage biotechnology companies in the San Diego community for 15 years, he has developed a wide range of cell and gene therapy products and prepared successful regulatory submissions, such as INDs, BLAs and NDAs.
Steve Winitsky, MD
Vice President, Technical, Parexel International, United States
In his current position as Vice President, Technical for Regulatory Consulting at Parexel International, Dr. Winitsky is a member of the Cell and Gene Therapy Center of Excellence. He provides clinical regulatory support to clients for all phases of product development for cell and gene therapies. Prior to coming to Parexel, he served 11 years as a Medical Officer in OTAT/CBER (the FDA Office that regulates cell and gene therapies), where he transitioned from Primary Clinical Reviewer to Team Leader, and finally to Acting Clinical Branch Chief for General Medicine. During his FDA tenure, he reviewed or supervised review of INDs for a variety of classes of cell and gene therapies in over 50 clinical indications.
Christiane Niederlaender, DrSc, PhD
Vice President, Technical, Parexel International, United Kingdom
Christiane is a member of Parexel’s Cell and Gene Therapy Center of Excellence. As VP technical for CMC, her focus is on manufacturing consideration for advanced therapies of all types, including genetically modified cells and viral vectors. Christiane has spent over 12 years in regulatory agencies covering medicines, tissue, cell and gene therapy regulation. She was Unit Manager of the Biologicals Unit and a Senior Quality Assessor and UK delegate at the EMA committee for advanced therapies (CAT) where she was responsible for managing the portfolio of all UK ATMP products and also the Rapporteur for the EMA CAT Gene Therapy Guideline. She has experience with the EU, UK and US regulatory system.