BioLife Solutions, Inc. announced the appointment of Timothy L. Moore to its board of directors, increasing board membership to six and as a member of the Company's Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. Moore brings more than 30 years of broad-based leadership experience in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and operations. Mr. Moore has served as a member of the board of directors of Cerus Corporation (Nasdaq: CERS) since September 2018.

Since April 2020, Mr. Moore has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer at PACT Pharma, Inc., or PACT, a company dedicated to engineering transformational T cell therapies. Mr. Moore served as the President and Chief Technology Officer at PACT from October 2019 to April 2020. Prior to PACT, Mr. Moore served as Executive Vice President, Technical Operations of Kite Pharma, or Kite, a company owned by Gilead Sciences, Inc. since March 2016.

Prior to Kite, he spent more than 12 years at Genentech, a Roche Company, most recently as Senior Vice President, Head of Global Technical Operations – Biologics and a member of the Genentech Executive Committee. While at Genentech, he oversaw global leadership for more than 7,500 professionals across 10 internal sites and managed more than 30 contract manufacturing organizations, including end to end quality supply performance of more than 20 biological products. Previously, Mr. Moore served as Vice President, Operations at ZLB Behring (formerly Aventis Behring).

Mr. Moore is currently a member of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, PDA and has been a part of the Executive Committee of BioPhorum Operations Group. Mr. Moore is a former member of the board of directors FosunKite, a joint venture between Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Fosun Pharmaceuticals Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering from Tulsa University and an M.S. from Northwestern University.