Cliff Hogan PhD FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics

Cliff Hogan joined Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc (FCDI). in 2023 as the Environmental Monitoring Manager in the Therapeutics Quality Control group. In this role, Cliff manages all aspects of the environmental monitoring (EM) program in FCDI’s Cellular Therapeutics manufacturing facilities, including improvements to the EM program such as implementation of rapid molecular methods. Cliff has over 10 years of experience in diverse roles across the biotech industry including: developing and implementing molecular contamination testing in the agriculture industry, leading quality control for production of molecular biology reagents, and managing risk while guiding a team of R&D scientists developing products to expand the capabilities of next-generation sequencing. Cliff holds a BS in Biology, MS in Bacteriology and PhD in Microbiology, all from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, as well as completing a post-doc with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. Cliff’s PhD research focused on development of tools for analysis of bacterial gene regulation during pathogenesis, and his MS research focused on metagenomic analysis of changes in environmental microbial community structure after exposure to antibiotics.