Award Winner (Service Appreciation Award) 2023: Darius Pillsbury

Darius worked on the development and validation of manufacturing processes in the Manufacturing Science and Technology group at ImClone Systems and Eli Lilly. He subsequently worked as the Director of Validation at the rare disease company, Ultragenyx, and as the Director of Quality Lifecycle Management at the cell therapy company, Adaptimmune. Darius has extensive experience in the establishment and implementation of science-driven and risk-based Control Strategies as a part of the overall process validation lifecycle approach. Darius is a member of the PDA ATMP Advisory Board and leads the PDA Cell & Gene Therapy Interest Group. Darius has many additional contributions to PDA including as an author of the PDA Technical Report 60-2 and in the current revision to TR60 Process Validation Lifecycle Approach, as well as a contributor to the PDA Annex 1 commenting team and the working groups for the standards for both the Cryopreservation of Cells for Use in Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine and Apheresis Cell Collection.