Director, Labs
PPD Laboratories
Amy Lavelle began her career in contract research and biotechnology as a scientist at Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. She received her Ph.D. in Human and Molecular Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University. Amy returned to the pharmaceutical industry as a principal investigator in the Immunochemistry Research and Development department at PPDand currently serves as Director of Molecular Genomics and Flow Cytometry. Amy is part of a cross-functional Cell and Gene Therapy Task Force, focusing on training strategy. She is a co-lead for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Women’s Empowerment BRG, chair for the AAPS Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences (WIPS) Community and part of the AAPS Career Development Committee.