Division Director
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland
Zuben E. Sauna is the Director, Division of Hemostasis in the Office if Therapeutic Products, Center for Biologics at the US Food and Drug Administration. He is also a Principal Investigator who leads a research program at the FDA. His research interests lie in understanding the pharmacogenetic basis of the immune response to proteins used in therapeutic interventions, including new modalities such as gene editing. His laboratory exploits a combination of computational, in vitro and ex vivo approaches to understand why some individuals and/or sub-populations develop immune responses while others do not. Work from his laboratory has been published in high impact journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Nature Reviews Genetics. He received his Ph.D. from Poona University, India with subsequent training at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA.
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Thursday, May 16, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PT