Jenny Wei Email & Phone Number

I am an interdisciplinary informatics, data science, and digital technology leader with a solid track record in designing, building, and leading informatics and technology organizations to deliver innovative solutions for small molecule, biologics, and cell therapy R&D, real-world evidence generation, process development, clinical manufacturing, and supply chain.Specialties:★ Oncology/IO/Cell Therapy★ R&D Digital Strategy and Solution Development★ Bioinformatics and Clinical Informatics★ Multi-modal Data Integration for R&D Insights★ AI/ML and RWE for Accelerated R&DLeadership Skills:★ Short- & Long-Term Vision & Planning★ Executive Leadership & Judgement ★ Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management★ Operational Excellence★ Global & Cross-functional Team Leadership

Listed skills include Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Discovery, Biotechnology, R&D, and 17 others.

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  Senior Director, Head Of R&D Information

  Kite Pharma

  2021 - Present - Santa Monica, California, United States

  Recruited to lead execution of Kite2.0 strategy by leveraging informatics capabilities to innovate next-generation CAR design and enable data-driven prediction for product lifecycle management to defend cell therapy leadership. Built R&D digital roadmap and defined priorities. Manage P&L for a multimillion budget. ✔ Led digital trial acceleration efforts to maximize technology and AI/ML/NLP use across the cell therapy trials. Reducing clinical data review cycle time by 30% to advance cell therapy to first-line LBCL.✔ Streamlining autologous & allogeneic cell therapy product development and optimizing clinical manufacturing slot demand prediction with Heath Cloud CGT and clinical control tower for clinical/supply chain/CMC system orchestration.✔ Building a multi-modal research ecosystem to address solid tumor targeting and CAR structure/activity modeling. Automating single cell/bulk sequencing, flow cytometry, pathology and spatial multi-omics imaging data pipelines with SaaS tools (Benchling, Concentriq, Visiopharm, Omiq, AtoMx), AWS Omics, Healthlake imaging, and LLM enabled search service.✔ Built and developed a team of 25+, providing leadership to deliver informatics solutions across cell therapy discovery, clinical development, patient safety, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs.✔ Established GCP/GVP/GCLP capabilities with R&D quality teams to support Zuma-7 submission and FDA/EMA/PMDA inspections, advancing cell therapy to second-line LBCL.