Vice President of Bioservices at Precision Bioservices, Inc, USA

Katheryn Shea is the Vice President of Bioservices at Precision Bioservices, Inc.   Precision is focused on delivering specialized scientific services, infrastructure, and technologies to help life science organizations develop and commercialize individualized medicines and therapies.  For over 20 years Ms Shea has led their repository program, helping clients build biological collections from design through implementation, maintenance and closeout stages. She is the current President of the International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), and has served on its council for 7 of the last 10 years.  Ms. Shea has served as Principal Investigator for several large repository initiatives sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, serves as a scientific reviewer for repository applications, and advises on the design of various research studies and clinical trials ranging from a few hundred to millions of biospecimens. She also serves on the advisory working group that designed the Biorepository Accreditation Program for the College of American Pathologists, and is the Biorepository Director for the CAP Biorepository Accreditation held by her company.