Vaishali Shah, MS Kite Pharma, A Gilead Company

Vaishali Shah works at Kite Pharma- Clinical manufacturing Santa Monica, Los Angeles as head of Quality Systems and Compliance, and has collected, in the past 25 years, extended technical and leadership experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Quality with a focus on microbiology, and lately in the cell therapy commercial microbiology. Vaishali’s expertise is in process microbial control strategies and setting up microbiology labs using the latest rapid micro detection techniques while abiding to regulatory requirements on equipment qualification and method validation. She holds a Masters Degree in Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, India.