Kate Nelson Sumitomo Pharma America

Kate Nelson is a pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality executive with 20 years of experience in the biopharma and medical device industries. She has worked in both small clinical stage biopharmas and large multinationals with multiple commercial products including Sumitomo Pharma America, Allakos, Dermira/Eli Lilly, Genentech, AstraZeneca, and Medtronic. Kate has led organizations in Quality and in Manufacturing for small molecules, monoclonal antibodies and for gene therapies. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and a M.S. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.