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Marty is a T cell biologist that joined PACT Pharma Inc in March 2020 as the SVP of Process Development supporting the development of personalized TCRs to tumor neoAgs as a therapy for solid cancers. Previously, he was the VP of Technical Operations at Poseida Therapeutics, leading the process development and manufacturing teams supporting their non-viral process for developing autologous and allogeneic CAR-T programs. While at Novartis AG, he guided the Process Development group in the Cell and Gene therapy unit in generating the clinical and commercial manufacturing process for the CD19 CAR-T program (Kymriah™). The opportunity at Novartis allowed him to “bookend” his career from generating LAK cells at Chiron to supporting the commercialization of the first adoptive CAR-T therapy for cancer. Previous to Novartis, he led the CMC, Pharm/Tox, and QA/QC groups at Sangamo Therapeutics for all of their gene-modification programs. This involved process and assay development for both vector (AAV, Adeno) and gene-modified cell therapies (T cells, CD34+ progenitor cells). A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he received his doctorate from the Medical College of Virginia/VCU, followed by fellowships at Scripps Research Institute and DNAX.