HaoFan Peng (Eric), PhD
Senior Engineer II
Manufacturing Sciences
Biogen
Dr. HaoFan Peng is a senior engineer in Biogen focusing on biologics process development in Multiple Sclerosis, Hemophilia, and Alzheimer. His main role is to ensure large scale manufacturing’s success in upstream and downstream as well as in clinical and commercial campaign (2000L to 15,000L). He also supported next generation facility design focusing on continuous perfusion process. He leads several cross-company projects including CMO partnership, raw material investigation, cell line robustness, medium optimization, instrument automation, product quality comparability, assay alignment in BIIB’s internal high titer development. Aside from the lab, he works closely with external partners in supporting domestic or international vendor qualification, raw material analysis and trace metal impurity to ensure supply chain consistency. Eric published several papers in mitigating the cell damaging and raw material qualification in collaboration with AD, QC, regulatory, supply chain, and external partners/vendors. He obtained his BS degree in National Taiwan University and PhD in SUNY Buffalo in gene therapy, regenerative medicine and preclinical animal model.