Michael Laird
VP Head of Cell Culture and Bioprocess Operations, Process Development
Postdoc Mentor
"We are responsible for developing clinical and commercial manufacturing processes for therapeutic proteins."
20
Years at Genentech
36
Publications at Genentech
We are responsible for developing clinical and commercial manufacturing processes for therapeutic recombinant biomolecules using Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) and E. coli cells. We also develop & evaluate new bioprocess technologies both internally and through industry and academic collaborations to improve our manufacturing processes. Our laboratories and pilot plants are housed within the Cell Culture and Bioprocess Operations department as part of the Pharma Technical Development (PTD) organization, which serves as the bridge between research & manufacturing. Our scale of operations ranges from a few mL for research-supply materials up to 1,000L for pilot-scale production. Our operations additionally encompass the pilot-scale facilities and staff to purify & formulate biomolecules into drug substance (DS) and drug product (DP).
Additional activities in our laboratories include but are not limited to:
- Develop highly-productive targeted integration CHO host cell lines
- Optimize transient and stable cell cultures processes for research materials production for gRED (Genentech Research and Early Development)
- Media development & optimization for cell culture processes to improve cell growth, product yield & product quality
- Develop techniques to improve control of product quality attributes
- Proteomic & genomic analyses to enhance our understanding of how the culture environment influences the recombinant biomolecule production process
- Scale-independent & scale-dependent validation for our manufacturing processes
- Transfer of processes to manufacturing sites within the Roche network and to contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs)
- Develop new single-use technologies & manufacturing network standards
- Prototype & characterize technologies for deployment into manufacturing
- Evolve our digital tools to enable data science and analytics
Featured Publication
Mechanism of antibody reduction in cell culture production processes.
Biotechnol Bioeng. 2010 Jun 29.
Kao YH, Hewitt DP, Trexler-Schmidt M, Laird MW.
Genentech Publications
Microbial Cell Factories, ISSN: 14752859
Tomasz K. Baginski; Karthik Veeravalli; Rebekah McKenna; Christopher Williams; Katherine Wong; Christina Tsai; Daniel Hewitt; Karthik Mani; Mike Laird
Microbial Cell Factories,
Tomasz K. Baginski; Karthik Veeravalli; Rebekah McKenna; Christopher Williams; Katherine Wong; Christina Tsai; Daniel Hewitt; Karthik Mani; Mike Laird
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Danming Tang; Cynthia Lam; Niels Bauer; Simon Auslaender; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Shahram Misaghi
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Domingos Ng; Meixia Zhou; Dejin Zhan; Shirley S. M. Yip; Peggy Ko; Mandy Yim; Zora Modrusan; John C. Joly; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Amy Shen
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Danming Tang; Cynthia Lam; Niels Bauer; Simon Auslaender; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Shahram Misaghi
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Joe Carver; Domingos Ng; Michelle Zhou; Peggy Ko; Dejin Zhan; Mandy Yim; David Shaw; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Steven E. Lang; Amy Shen; Zhilan Hu
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, ISSN: 19482124 10797440
Paul Wu; Taymar Hartman; Louise Almond; Jennitte Stevens; John Thrift; Juhi Ojha; Christina Alves; David Shaw; Mike Laird; Robyn Emmins; Yuan Zhu; Ren Liu; Zhimei Du; Rolf Koehler; Thomas Jostock; Karin Anderson; Chris Campbell; Howard Clarke
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications,
Dao; Barbara M. Lippe; Mike Laird; Ingrid Beierle
Biotechnology Journal, ISSN: 18607314 18606768
Danming Tang; Jayashree Subramanian; Benjamin Haley; Jordan Baker; Lucas Luo; Wendy Hsu; Peter S. Liu; Wendy N. Sandoval; Mike Laird; Snedecor; Masaru Shiratori; Shahram Misaghi
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, ISSN: 19482124 10797440
Kyle Zingaro; David Shaw; Jerry Carson; Anke Mayer-Bartschmid; Christian Bender; Christina Alves; Duncan McVey; Nan-Xin Qian; Qingxiang Wei; Mike Laird; Yuan Zhu; Robyn Emmins; John A. Follit; Alison Porter; Andrew J. Racher; Sarah Milne; Ivan Carubelli; Zhimei; Ankita Khatri; Marilyne Failly; Hervé Broly; Frank Lee; Matthew Reeser; Jared Spidel; Karin Anderson; Christine Demaria; Jennifer Di-Carlo; John Gill; Amie Lundquist; Sampath R. Kumar; Tony Gill
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Peggy Ko; Shahram Misaghi; Zhilan Hu; Dejin Zhan; Joni Tsukuda; Mandy Yim; Mark Sanford; David Shaw; Masaru Shiratori; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Amy Shen
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
David Shaw; Mandy Yim; Joni Tsukuda; John C. Joly; Andy Lin; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Steven E. Lang
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Yizhou Zhou; David Shaw; Cynthia Lam; Joni Tsukuda; Mandy Yim; Danming Tang; Salina Louie; Mike Laird; Snedecor; Shahram Misaghi
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Karthik Veeravalli; Tony Schindler; Emily Dong; Masaki Yamada; Ryan Hamilton; Mike Laird
Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, ISSN: 07246145
Kelley; Robert Kiss; Mike Laird
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Zhilan Hu; Wei-Ting Hsu; Abigail F.J. Pynn; Domingos Ng; Donna Quicho; Yilma T. Adem; Zephie Kwong; Brad Mauger; John C. Joly; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Dana C. Andersen; Amy Shen
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Zhilan Hu; Danming Tang; Shahram Misaghi; Guoying Jiang; X. Christopher Yu; Mandy Yim; David Shaw; Snedecor; Mike Laird; Amy Shen
Air sparging for prevention of antibody disulfide bond reduction in harvested CHO cell culture fluid
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, ISSN: 10970290 00063592
Melissa Mun; Stefanie Khoo; Aline Do Minh; James Dvornicky; Melody Trexler-Schmidt; Kao; Mike Laird
Bioengineered, ISSN: 21655987 21655979
Karthik Veeravalli; Mike Laird
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033 87567938
Karthik Veeravalli; Mike Laird; Mark Fedesco; Yu Zhang; X. Christopher Yu
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ISSN: 15206017 00223549
Xuan Gao; Junyan A. Ji; Karthik Veeravalli; Y. John Wang; Taylor Zhang; William Mcgreevy; Kai Zheng; Robert F. Kelley; Mike Laird; Jun Liu; Cromwell
Eliminating tyrosine sequence variants in CHO cell lines producing recombinant monoclonal antibodies
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, ISSN: 00063592 10970290
Lauren Feeney; Veronica Carvalhal; X. Christopher Yu; Betty Chan; David A. Michels; Yajun Jennifer Wang; Amy Shen; Jan Ressl; Brendon Dusel; Mike Laird
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, Fourth Edition,
Dao; Barbara M. Lippe; Mike Laird
Journal of Biotechnology, ISSN: 01681656 18734863
Kristen L. Koterba; Trissa Borgschulte; Mike Laird
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, ISSN: 00063592 10970290
Kao; Daniel Hewitt; Melody Trexler-Schmidt; Mike Laird
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, ISSN: 00063592 10970290
Donglin Guo; Albert Gao; David A. Michels; Lauren Feeney; Eng; Betty Chan; Mike Laird; Boyan Zhang; X. Christopher Yu; John C. Joly; Snedecor; Amy Shen
Protein Expression and Purification, ISSN: 10465928
Shelly A. Pizarro; Jane Gunson; Field; Rachel Dinges; Stefanie Khoo; Milind Dalal; Michael Lee; Kimberly A. Kaleas; Kathryn Moiseff; Susan Garnick; Dorothea Reilly; Mike Laird; Charles H. Schmelzer
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 87567938 15206033
Ekta Mahajan; Timothy Matthews; Ryan Hamilton; Mike Laird
Molecular Biotechnology, ISSN: 10736085
Brian Horvath; Melissa Mun; Mike Laird
Identification and prevention of antibody disulfide bond reduction during cell culture manufacturing
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, ISSN: 00063592 10970290
Melody Trexler-Schmidt; Sandy Sargis; Jason Chiu; Stefanie Sze-Khoo; Melissa Mun; Kao; Mike Laird
Biotechnology Progress, ISSN: 15206033
Lauren Speciner; Erin Mallon; Susan Leung; Mike Laird; Osigwe Esue
AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings,
Jane Gunson; Mike Laird
Biochemistry, ISSN: 00062960
Katherine Y. Blain; Witek Kwiatkowski; Qinghai Zhao; David La Fleur; Chethana Naik; Tae-Wook Chun; Tatiana Tsareva; Palanisamy Kanakaraj; Mike Laird; Rutul Shah; Lisa George; Indra Sanyal; Paul A. Moore; Borries Demeler; Senyon Choe
Critical Care Medicine, ISSN: 00903493
Kevin Sherer; Yan Li; Xizhong Cui; Xuemei Li; Mani Subramanian; Mike Laird; Mahtab Moayeri; Stephen H. Leppla; Yvonne Fitz; Junwu Su; Peter Q. Eichacker
Molecular Microbiology, ISSN: 0950382X
Tracy L. Raivio; Mike Laird; John C. Joly; Thomas J. Silhavy
Molecular Microbiology, ISSN: 0950382X
Andrew Kloser; Mike Laird; Ming Deng; Rajeev Misra
Education
- Genentech, Inc., Postdoctoral Fellow – 1999
- Arizona State University, Microbiology, Ph.D. – 1996
- Iowa State University , Biology, B.S. – 1991