SmartCella Holding AB announced that Dr. Nina Bauer, MBA, has been appointed Chief Business Officer and Head of Smartwise.
Nina Bauer joins in January 2024 from MilliporeSigma, where she most recently held the role of Global Head of Commercial, Viral Vector and Biologics CDMO. She will be a member of the SmartCella Exceutive Management Team, and based in Boston (MA, USA).
SmartCella is an innovative biotech and medtech company that combines the development of future stem cell and RNA-based therapies and methods for administering such treatments via targeted delivery into organs and tumors through a unique device (the FDA-approved Extroducer). In 2023, SmartCella has grown significantly and advanced both its pipeline of therapeutics and its technical capabilities. In addition to preparing for the start of a phase I trial in cardiac repair together with AstraZeneca, developments include the work towards a pivotal GMP approval of the large-scale state-of-the-art facility (located in Tullinge, near Karolinska University Hospital) for clinical production of cell-based therapies. The facility will be available both for the manufacture of internal therapeutic developments and third-party manufacturing. With the strategic recruitment of Nina Bauer, SmartCella is accelerating its expansion plans and gearing up to enter the US market.
Niklas Prager, CEO of SmartCella, comments: “We are thrilled to welcome Nina to the SmartCella group, she possesses a versatile and unique mix of competencies across the fields of novel modality and biotherapeutics as well as manufacturing technologies and process improvements to enable global therapy access. She is equally familiar with managing strategic discussions on a board or leadership level as with working hands-on in prototyping labs or GMP facilities. As we are now taking the next step on SmartCella’s growth and expansion journey, Nina will be essential in driving our business development further. In her capacity as Head of Smartwise, she will oversee our clinical and research activities to fully leverage the Extroducer while we continue to secure global licensing deals for this groundbreaking targeted delivery technology.”
Nina Bauer says: “SmartCella was like a hidden gem to me, innovative and entrepreneurial in a very hot and fast developing research area. I was attracted by the breadth and depth of the teams, the Swedish and global characteristics and not the least, their visionary aspirations of taking a leading position in the rapidly evolving field of cell and gene therapy and, most crucially, targeted delivery. It is my vision that accessing cancers and organs directly, we can really change the way we treat some of the most incurable diseases. I was truly inspired by the team’s purpose to pioneer new treatment paradigms and, through world-class science, transform lives for patients in need.”
Nina Bauer is a distinguished professional within the global cell and gene therapy manufacturing community. Nina joined MilliporeSigma through the acquisition of FloDesign Sonics, where she was Chief Commercial Officer. As Head of Autologous Cell Therapy at Lonza (Basel, CH) she initiated personalized cell therapy manufacturing services and technologies, most notably the Cocoon, and prior to that was a Business Development Manager at the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult in London (UK).
Nina holds a Masters in Neuroscience from SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY, USA), a PhD in Neuroscience from Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg (Germany), and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). She has authored and contributed to numerous publications related to novel cell and gene therapy, most recently in the online-publication Cell and Therapy Insights.
SmartCella, founded in 2014, is an innovative biotechnology and medtech company based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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