Pier-Anne Lachance

Pier-Anne Lachance has extensive experience in the field of quality control, with their most recent position being Associate Director of Quality Control at Genprex, Inc. They also served as Associate Director and Senior Manager of Quality Control at Immatics, and held roles as a Quality Control Manager and Supervisor at Lonza. Prior to that, they worked as a Specialist III in Quality Control at Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In addition to their quality control roles, Pier-Anne has research experience as a Research Scientist at Mesoblast, where they developed assays for cell potency and quality control. They also have academic experience as a Graduate Student at Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Pier-Anne Lachance holds a Doctorate in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine, which was completed between 2006 and 2012. Additionally, they attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Austin Peay State University from 2002 to 2006. Later, they pursued a Master's degree in Statistics at Texas A&M University between 2017 and 2019. Pier-Anne Lachance has also obtained a SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 certification from SAS in 2017. They also attended the Biophotonic Summer School, although the specific dates, degree, and field of study are not provided.