Elizabeth Handen

Elizabeth Handen has a diverse range of work experience in the biotechnology and healthcare industries. Elizabeth is currently working as a Technical Operations Specialist II at WuXi Advanced Therapies since March 2021. Prior to that, they worked at Cytiva from January 2020 to March 2021, where they served as a Quality and Regulatory Training and Documentation Specialist. During their time at Cytiva, Elizabeth led the post-merger integration of training, policies, and procedures across the Quality and Manufacturing divisions.

Before Cytiva, Elizabeth was a part of the Quality and Regulatory Leadership Program at GE Healthcare (now Cytiva) from July 2018 to December 2019. This program allowed their to gain experience in various areas of quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and medical and clinical affairs within the healthcare industry.

Elizabeth also has research experience as a Research Associate at the Institute of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, where they focused on kinetics research in blood coagulation. Additionally, they have held internships at LifeCell (an Acelity company) in 2016 as an Operations Integration Intern, and at CytoSorbents in 2014.

Throughout their career, Elizabeth has demonstrated skills in project management, process improvement, training and documentation, and regulatory compliance. Elizabeth'sexperience spans across different sectors of the industry, ranging from research to operations to technical operations.

Elizabeth Handen attended the University of Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2017, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a major in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Elizabeth then pursued further education at the same institution and earned a Master of Science in Biotechnology from 2016 to 2018, specializing in the field of Biotechnology.