Dennis Dong

Dennis Dong, PhD, is a seasoned biotechnology leader with more than 20 years of industry experience and contributions to the advancement of several dozen biotherapies including 5 launched mAb products. Dennis is currently serving as Vice President, Product Development of Immunome and leading the effort in the development (cell line, upstream and downstream, analytical method, formulation, and bioanalysis), manufacturing and testing of our lead monoclonal antibodies. Before joining Immumome, he was Executive Director of Process and Technology Development at WuXi Advanced Therapies, responsible for AAV and Lenti viral vector platform development and launch, and client program support, the establishment Rapid Analytics and CMC groups, and regulatory activities. Prior to that he was Senior Director of a new BioManufacturing company, MTA2 (now 8BioMed), in charge of building GMP manufacturing facility, QC lab, and the team. Dennis’ Biologics and Vaccine R&D career also led him successfully for many years at Novo Nordisk, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Sanofi and Teva, with increasing responsibilities, covering in Biologics discovery, process development, CMC, Biosimilar, Bioanalysis, project management and operation. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship training from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory under Prof. Michael Wigler, and his PhD in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology under Prof. Gerald Hart at the Johns Hopkins University School of medicine. He received B.S. in Biochemistry from Stony Brook University.