Talk Title: Harnessing metabolism to deliver precision bioprocessing for cell therapeutics

Sakis Mantalaris is currently the Don Panoz Chair at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at Trinity College Dublin as well as Principal Investigator at the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research & Training.

Prior, he was Professor in the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2018-2023) and in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London (2000-2018). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Rochester, USA. His research interests lie in the area of bioprocess and tissue engineering with a focus on metabolism.

He has received several awards: the Junior Moulton Award for best paper by the IChemE (2004), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2012), an ERC Advanced Investigator Award (2013), the Donald Medal from IChemE (2015) and the Research Ireland “Research Professor” Award in 2024.