ABOUT US
BEATRIZ E. MESA, MS
Beatriz is the president of Triz Biotech Consulting LLC. Beatriz was the Head of Viral Therapeutics Manufacturing at Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. She established a new clinical manufacturing facility, process development team, and cGMP manufacturing team to supply Phase I and Phase II clinical trials at Sorrento. She was responsible for process development and manufacturing for oncolytic virus at this organization. In this and prior roles, she spent 25+ years contributing to clinical and commercial process development and manufacturing efforts on a diverse catalog of products including monoclonal antibodies, peptibodies and viral drug substances and drug products. She led multiple manufacturing and process development teams at Amgen (Thousand Oaks, CA) and provided manufacturing support at MilliporeSigma (Carlsbad, CA). She has been involved in programs at the pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial stages of development spanning upstream, downstream, and fill & finish operations. She has participated in assembling multiple regulatory filings and supporting pre-approval inspections. She obtained her Chemical Engineering BS from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia and her Bioengineering MS degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.