Jay Howlett is the Director of External Operations for the mAb platform at Vir Biotechnology in San Francisco, CA. He has worked in the biotechnology industry for over 20 years in the small biotech, innovator company and contract manufacturing spaces. Previous to Vir, Jay spent 15 years at Genentech/Roche where for 10 years he worked on commercial product transfers (DS, DP and packaging) to support both internal and external needs world-wide and then 5 years in the development space within external manufacturing supporting CMC teams. His contract manufacturing career started at DSM Biologics in Montreal, Canada for early and late stage DS biologics manufacturing. Jay holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo (ON, Canada) and a Master of Science in Biology/Biotechnology from Carleton University (ON, Canada).

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