Dr. Rod O’Keeffe

Rod O’Keeffe is a biopharmaceutical consultant with over 25 years of experience in the development of biological products.  Rod worked in a senior capacity at Ipsen Biopharma for almost 20 years managing development activities for biological products including clinical supply, characterisation, process development and technology transfer of manufacturing processes into GMP facilities. In addition he worked at Ipsen in Formulation Development as a Manager for biological products developing formulations for LCM and novel proteins.  Rod worked in a small biotech company, Cantab Pharmaceuticals, as a Downstream Process Development scientist optimising, scaling up and technology transferring manufacturing processes for a recombinant virus vaccine. He gained his degree in Biochemistry from Liverpool University and obtained his PhD in the manufacturing processes of live viral vaccine products from Aston University.