Jessica Hankins PhD Bristol Myers Squibb (INVITED)

Jessica Hankins holds a PhD with distinction from Georgia Health Sciences University where she studied endotoxin biosynthesis of various Gram-negative organisms in the laboratory of M. Stephen Trent. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin and a position in Genentech's Early Research and Development Infectious Diseases department, Jessica joined the Food and Drug Administration as a microbiology reviewer and Quality Assessment Lead in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Currently, Jessica is an Associate Scientific Director at Bristol Myers Squibb, where her team oversees container closure integrity test method development and validation, as well as endotoxin method development and verification. She is a member of the U.S. Pharmacopeia Microbiology Expert Committee.