Eileen Higham

Dr. Eileen Higham has over 20 years of experience leveraging diverse strategic, scientific, and technical expertise to develop innovative strategies to rapidly deliver novel cell-, viral-, and protein-based therapies to improve human health.

Dr. Higham is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Technical Operations at Intergalactic Therapeutics, a stealth non-viral gene therapy company. Prior to Intergalactic, Dr. Higham was Vice President, Head of Analytical & Process Development at Sana Biotechnology, where she led a team developing best-in-class manufacturing processes and analytical packages for production of next generation cell and gene therapies. Prior to Sana, Dr. Higham was Senior Director, Head of Analytical & Process Development at Juno Therapeutics (Celgene/Bristol Myers Squibb), where she provided strategic, scientific, and technical leadership for development of best-in-class manufacturing processes and analytical packages for production of autologous T cell therapies. In this role, she led an organization of 100+ scientists and engineers developing strategies to enable robust, well-controlled, and well-characterized Drug Product process design and associated analytical packages to support Phase 0 through commercialization. Prior to Juno, Dr. Higham served as Associate Director/Product Development Team Leader - Adoptive Cellular Therapy at MedImmune/AstraZeneca, with joint appointments in Biopharmaceutical Development (BPD) and the Oncology Innovative Medicines Unit (iMED). Dr Higham started her career in industry at Merck as a Biochemical Engineer developing in-house, serum-free cell culture media for use in the efficient-large scale production of viral products.

Dr. Higham received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a Doctorate in Biological Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.