AbCellera announced that Ester Falconer, Ph.D., has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective January 28, 2021. As CTO, Dr. Falconer will lead AbCellera’s long-term strategy in the development, aggregation, and integration of technologies that improve the speed and success of therapeutic antibody discovery from target to investigational new drug application submission. Prior to her promotion to CTO, Dr. Falconer was the Head of Research and Development, overseeing technology development in genomics, microfluidics, biochemistry, protein engineering, data sciences, and machine learning. She led the development of AbCellera’s Pandemic Preparedness Platform (P3) program and its deployment to combat COVID-19.