Matt Bio

Chief Scientific Officer, Cambrex & President, Snapdragon Chemistry
Waltham, MA, USA
“Many peptides were in short supply because there's only a handful of places that do solid phase synthesis, which takes a long time to ramp up, and it's very expensive. By moving to a liquid phase approach, you're not tied to a specialized reactor anymore, you're now able to leverage reactors that are all over the world at various scales up to tens of thousands of liters.”

Highlights

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry
  • Industry experience at Rohm & Haas, Merck Research Laboratories and Amgen
  • Founding member of Snapdragon Chemistry, Inc.

Summary

With over 30 years of academic and industry experience in life sciences, Matt leads Cambrex’s scientific innovation strategy, including continuous manufacturing, complex synthetic process development, AI and automation.

Areas of Expertise

  • Process chemistry and continuous manufacturing
  • Manufacturing technologies for synthetic – biologic hybrid molecules
  • Solid-phase and liquid-phase peptide synthesis
  • Oligonucleotide process development and manufacturing