Manuel Teixeira Carrondo

Vice President of Business Strategy at iBET

Manuel Carrondo, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, has been involved in animal cell technology research since the mid-eighties, through a couple of sabbaticals at MIT’s Biotechnology Process Engineering Center. He created iBET in Oeiras in 1988 and GenIbet as a spin off in 2006 to carry out productions of cGMP biopharmaceuticals for phase I/II clinical trials for proteins, viruses for gene therapy and vaccines and cell therapy. Currently iBET’s vice-president, Manuel Carrondo has recently been distinguished with the Cell Culture Engineering (CCE) Award 2021. Prof. Carrondo has published over 250 papers and supervised thirty-six Ph.D. students (thesis defended)