Angela Collura

Angela Collura completed her Post Graduation in Medical Biotechnology from Bologna University, Italy. Angela went to work in Regulatory Affairs. After that, she moved to the UK and joined the core GMP team at UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she was involved in the operations of the cleanrooms and the manufacture of immunotherapies such as CD19 CAR-T cells for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) patients in phase I/II clinical trial. Also, she had the opportunity to work in a trial where they manufactured an ATMP that was CD25/71 allodepleted T cells in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Alongside the manufacturer, she was involved in the patients’ immune-monitoring program. Next, Angela moved to the ATMP manufacturing and development platform at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital. Here she worked as a Production Scientist first and then Senior Production Scientist in multiple clinical trial ATMPs ranging from T-Regs to Monocytes that they developed and routinely manufactured for. Angela currently works at Achilles Therapeutics, where she is part of a team developing GMP-compliant ATMP Production procedures for Achilles’ pipeline products.