Christina Broomes has been in the biopharmaceutical industry for over 16 years and is currently the Director, Manufacturing at Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals, Gene Therapy, responsible for CMO management for Plasmid manufacturing. Christina previously worked at Alexion where she was the Sr. Manager of Clinical Manufacturing Management, overseeing external DS and DP manufacturing for both early and late clinical stage programs. Prior to Alexion, she spent 4 years at Sanofi Genzyme as the Manufacturing Sciences & Technology (MSAT) Manager. She worked at Genentech for 7 years in a variety of Engineering roles, including Corporate Process Engineer on a green-field commercial Formulation/Fill/Finish plant startup and as a member of the company’s Operations Rotational Development Program; having started her career at Merck as a Manufacturing Engineer and Corning Incorporated as an Equipment Engineer.