Biswarup Dasgupta, MS Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Biswarup Dasgupta (Bis) is a Quality and Compliance leader with experience in QA, and QC including contamination control over 23 years in the Biotech Industry. Currently, Bis is working as Site Quality Head at Vertex Manufacturing Center. Bis worked as QA Director for Sarepta's Gene Therapy program from July 2019 - March 2022. Before joining Sarepta, Bis assumed different roles in Quality organizations with increasing responsibilities at Sanofi, GSK Biologics, and Altana Pharma. In these roles, he has developed effective contamination control programs, led successful CD verification, implemented phase-appropriate GMPs, provided strategic leadership, and built a Quality and continuous improvement culture. Bis has a Master in Microbiology and BS in Chemistry, Biology, and Microbiology. Bis has co-authored TR13-2 and currently co-leading the new TR on Contamination Control Strategy. Bis is also a member of the current revision of PDA TR-56.