Virginia Litwin PhD

Virginia Litwin, Ph.D. is a thought-leader in analytical method validation and standardization for flow cytometry. Bringing “Cytometry from Bench-to-Bedside” has been the focus of her professional activities since 1999 when she started working in translational medicine at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

She co-founded the Flow Cytometry Action Program Committee (APC) within the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). This group published the first papers on flow cytometry method and instrument validation which Virginia was invited to present at the FDA Workshop on Clinical Flow Cytometry in 2013.

Virginia edited the book, Flow Cytometry in Drug Discovery and Development (Wiley-Blackwell), a Special Issue of the Journal of Immunology Methods on Flow Cytometry Biomarkers and Translational Medicine, and a Special Issue of Cytometry Part B dedicated to Receptor Occupancy.

After obtaining a Ph.D. in Virology/Immunology from the University of Iowa, Virginia joined Lewis Lanier at DNAX as a post-doctoral fellow. She was the scientific leader for flow cytometry at Covance from 2010 to 2017 where she was also the first recipient of the Covance Science and Technology Award. Recently, she joined Caprion Biosciences as Vice President, Immunology.