Antinea Chair

Antinea is the Vice President of Technical Operations at Cellares. She brings over a decade of experience in the Life Sciences industry, having held senior leadership responsibilities in Cell Manufacturing, Technical Operations, MSAT, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Program Management.

Prior to joining Cellares, Antinea oversaw the design, build, and deployment of Synthego’s High-Throughput Genome Engineering Technology, a cell-line agnostic platform accelerating researchers’ CRISPR-mediated target identification and validation initiatives. She led the commercial launch of CRISPR-edited iPSCs and Engineered Cell Libraries to upend mainstream therapeutic development approaches, enabling researchers to gain valuable diversity, toxicity, and efficacy insights in-situ, de-risking costly therapeutic endeavors far ahead of traditional patient trials. In partnership with the NIH, she led the generation of isogenic-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines to establish a national repository to characterize how individual mutations impact cellular pathways and contribute to Alzheimer’s and other neurological indications.

At Novartis, Antinea drove readiness and successful completion of FDA pre-approval inspections (PAI). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbial Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and has made it her mission to understand, optimize, and accelerate access to curative therapeutic modalities reinforced through years of innovative, customer-centric genomic advancements across all stages of the drug development process.