Instructor

Robert D. Kiss

Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of BioProcess Development, Genentech

Dr. Robert D. Kiss is a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of BioProcess Development at Genentech. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and then his MS and PhD degrees from MIT. His areas of focus within the industry have included media/process optimization and product quality control (especially protein glycosylation), barriers to virus contamination of mammalian cultures, and scale-up/scale-down strategies.