Biren Mistry
Director, Business Integration at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Biren Mistry is currently a Senior Bioengineer in Bioprocess Development at Celgene Cellular Therapeutics in Warren, NJ. Prior to joining Celgene, Biren’s developed therapeutics that include recombinant proteins, plant-derived secondary metabolites, bacterial natural products, and biosimilars. He worked on upstream development, scale-up, primary recovery, process chromatography, PEGylation, and Technology Transfer to contract manufacturing organizations. At Celgene, Biren and his team are responsible for identifying and developing technologies for immunomagnetic cell isolation, cell expansion and differentiation, and cell washing. He has led the development of a secondary generation manufacturing process utilizing microcarriers and stirred-tank bioreactors for cell expansion and fluidized bed centrifugation for cell washing. Recently his team has focused on developing a manufacturing process for producing natural killer cells from cord blood-derived hematopoietic stem cells. Biren received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University.