Katherine (Katie) Dunnick, PhD is a Principal Process Engineer within the MSAT team at Lonza where she focuses on process improvement projects. Prior to her work in MSAT, she was a member of the Lonza R&D team working on the development of new primary cell products and assays. Katie received her PhD in Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences from West Virginia University where she researched the effects of nanoparticles on pulmonary systems, both in vitro and in vivo. After completing her PhD, she joined ScitoVation where she developed a novel assay to detect double strand DNA breaks via flow cytometry. She then joined MatTek as a Business Development/Marketing Manager prior to joining the Lonza MSAT team.