John Garcia is Head of New Manufacturing Technologies and a senior research fellow in GMP CAR-T cell production at University College London. Prior to his appointment at UCL, John was a Cell Therapy Advanced Specialist for just under two years at the NHS Blood and Transplant and the Centre for Cell and Gene Tissue Therapeutics. John acquired his PhD from Loughborough University and The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he was also a post-doctoral researcher