Jenny Wei
AI, Computational Biology & Digital Leader | Bridging Science, Data & Investment Strategy to Accelerate Biotech Innovation
- Role
- Senior Director, Head of R & d Information at Kite Pharma
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jenny Wei
I am an interdisciplinary informatics, data science, and digital technology leader with a…
Experience
Senior Director, Head of R & d Information
Jan 2021 — Present · Santa Monica, CA, US
Recruited to lead execution of Kite2.0 strategy by leveraging informatics capabilities to innovate next-generation CAR design and enable data-driven prediction for product lifecycle management to defend cell therapy leadership. Built R&D digital roadmap and defined priorities. Manage P&L for a multimillion budget. Led digital trial acceleration efforts to maximize technology and AI/ML/NLP use across the cell therapy trials. Reducing clinical data review cycle time by 30% to advance cell therapy to first-line LBCL. Streamlining autologous & allogeneic cell therapy product development and optimizing clinical manufacturing slot demand prediction with Heath Cloud CGT and clinical control tower for clinical/supply chain/CMC system orchestration. Building a multi-modal research ecosystem to address solid tumor targeting and CAR structure/activity modeling. Automating single cell/bulk sequencing, flow cytometry, pathology and spatial multi-omics imaging data pipelines with SaaS tools (Benchling, Concentriq, Visiopharm, Omiq, AtoMx), AWS Omics, Healthlake imaging, and LLM enabled search service. Built and developed a team of 25+, providing leadership to deliver informatics solutions across cell therapy discovery, clinical development, patient safety, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs. Established GCP/GVP/GCLP capabilities with R&D quality teams to support Zuma-7 submission and FDA/EMA/PMDA inspections, advancing cell therapy to second-line LBCL.
Education
University of Washington
Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Master
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford Executive Program
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor of Science - BS
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