Meenu Wadhwa, PhD

Member of International Editorial Advisory Board, GaBI Journal

Principal Scientist, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, UK

Dr Meenu Wadhwa is Section Leader, Cytokines and Growth Factors Section in the Biotherapeutics Group at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC). She is responsible for a number of diverse projects in the cytokine and growth factor area. These include preparation of cytokine standards and/or reference reagents, development and implementation of cytokine assays and their use in standardization, product testing and in research. Her main research interests include development of novel bioassays for cytokines, cytokine contamination of biological products and the unwanted immunogenicity of biotherapeutic products. This has resulted in over 90 publications in scientific journals/books and several presentations at international/national scientific conferences. She has contributed to several guidelines, for example, the drafting of the European Medicines Agency guidelines on immunogenicity assessment and the World Health Organization guidelines on evaluation of similar biotherapeutic products. She reviews manuscripts for several scientific journals and is an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Immunological Methods and an Associate Editor for Biologicals, and is a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of GaBI Journal since 2016.