Mitchell h. Finer
Zoe Coughlin
Zoe Coughlin is the Associate Director of CMC at Immatics US, Inc. in Houston, Tx leading the clinical manufacturing of adoptive cell therapy programs for various solid cancers. Zoe has more than 10 years of experience in GMP manufacturing of cell and gene therapy products and has helped guide all 4 Immatics’ active clinical trials through pre-clinical development, IND approval, and patient treatment. Before joining Immatics, Zoe was a Senior Clinical Cell Therapy Specialist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center involved in the manufacture and administration of multiple cell therapy products including the Sleeping Beauty transposon-based CAR-T program. Zoe holds a M.S. in Clinical Practice Management and maintains a MLS (ASCP)CM certification.
Knut Niss
Dr. Niss has served as Chief Technology Officer since March 2018. Dr. Niss joined Mustang in March 2017 as Vice President of Operations, where he initiated and oversees the establishment of Mustang’s cell therapy manufacturing facility. Prior to Mustang, Dr. Niss was Cell Therapy Asset Leader at Biogen, where he oversaw CMC-related activities for gene-edited hematopoietic stem cell and lentiviral gene therapy programs for sickle cell disease and hemophilia, respectively. Earlier in his career, Dr. Niss was Senior Technical Project Leader at Novartis’ cell therapy manufacturing facility in Morris Plains, New Jersey, where he directed the transfer and implementation of the CTL019 process from Penn to Novartis. He also served as Senior R&D Program Manager at EMD Millipore, where he established processes for the large-scale expansion of adult and pluripotent stem cells. Dr. Niss began his career in senior research positions in Pfizer’s Regenerative Medicine and Immunology groups. He holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Humboldt University of Berlin, and an M.S. in microbiology from the University of Göttingen in Germany. Dr. Niss completed his postdoctoral research at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Anthony Thatcher
Katie D. McMillan
Jayne Lewis
Susan C. Nicholson, MD, FIDSA
