Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc announced that Mark E. Dudley, Ph.D. has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Global Bio-Process and Development. Dr. Dudley has been a pioneer in the field of immunotherapy manufacturing, and has developed and implemented innovative early process design with accompanying analytics for multiple therapies. Prior to joining Adaptimmune, Dr. Dudley was the Director of New Cell Products for Cell and Gene Therapy at Novartis in Cambridge, MA where he served on the technical R&D leadership team, and was responsible for establishing scalable, GMP-compliant production strategies, and facilitating globalization of CAR-T products and platforms.