Rita Stiemke

Rita Stiemke, Ph.D. is the Director of Quality Control at Waisman Biomanufacturing. Ms. Stiemke has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Ms. Stiemke has experience in leading quality control teams performing biopharmaceutical method development and method validation for product release and stability testing. Prior to her current role, Ms. Stiemke was a Research Scientist and Associate Group Leader at PPD (Madison, WI), as well as Scientist and Team Leader for DuPont (Madison, WI). The emphasis of Rita’s experience is in leading cGMP compliant quality testing including cell-based bioassay potency, host cell protein, and viral replication competence method development. As Director of Quality Control at WB, Ms. Stiemke leads a team of QC specialists that develop and validate methods, as well as perform QC testing for product release and storage in collaboration with clients, the WB manufacturing team, the WB Quality Assurance team.