Rick Bodmer

Rick Bodmer joined Mustang Bio in August 2022 as Head of CMC Development. Rick has spent more than 25 years in biotechnology in engineering and manufacturing partnerships. Prior to Mustang, Rick was Vice President of External Manufacturing and a CMC Leader at AVROBIO in Cambridge, MA. Before that, Rick was at Bioverativ, a Biogen spin-off, where he served in several different roles, most recently as Executive Director of External Manufacturing for Cell & Gene Therapies and prior to that leading the Facilities & Engineering function for the company. He also served as Head of Process Engineering at Shire (MA). Rick worked for 19+ years at Genzyme/Sanofi Genzyme in a variety of engineering roles, directly supporting manufacturing sites and in Global roles. His work primarily focused on leading tech transfers, implementing major capital programs and process improvements, and building and leading engineering teams.

Before joining biotech in Massachusetts, Rick spent several years each at Merck (VA) and Allergan (NY).

Rick received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.