Robert J. Thomas MPharm, MRPharmS, PhD

Robert Thomas is Professor in Manufacturing for Cell and Gene Therapies at Loughborough University, UK, where he holds an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Fellowship. He trained as a Pharmacist at Nottingham University, UK, and Pfizer pharmaceutics research and development before gaining a Ph.D. in Liver Tissue Engineering, also from Nottingham, in 2006. His laboratory is focussed on addressing manufacturing challenges for cell-based products in collaboration with a wide range of industrial and academic partners.

His research encompasses novel platforms and processes for cell manufacture and modeling to support quality-by-design approaches, predominantly using hematopoietic lineage based products (Megakaryocytes, Red Cells, T-cells, Haematopoietic progenitors) as exemplars. A particular focus of his work is the development of models and supporting tools that will enable the definition of robust manufacturing design spaces for cell-based products and that will be beneficial to supporting CMC requirements.