Thomas R. Kreil, Ph.D.
Takeda Manufacturing Austria
Vice President
Global Pathogen Safety
Beyond his work at Takeda, he is Chairman of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association’s (PPTA) Pathogen Safety Steering Committee, a Steering Committee member of the Consortium on Adventitious Agent Contamination in Biomanufacturing (CAACB) as coordinated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Virology, Medical University of Vienna.
Dr. Kreil obtained a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria, and spent several years on post-doctoral research at the same institution focusing on antiviral immunology and specifically, the role of antiviral antibodies. He then joined Takeda (Immuno/Baxter/Baxalta/Shire), working in the area of Pathogen Safety of biopharmaceuticals, as well as research on virus antibodies and vaccines. He is well-published and has been a frequent international lecturer on the safety of biological medicinal products versus viruses and prions as well as antiviral defense, with particular emphasis on the role of virus antibodies/IVIG and vaccines.
Global Pathogen Safety
Beyond his work at Takeda, he is Chairman of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association’s (PPTA) Pathogen Safety Steering Committee, a Steering Committee member of the Consortium on Adventitious Agent Contamination in Biomanufacturing (CAACB) as coordinated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Virology, Medical University of Vienna.
Dr. Kreil obtained a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria, and spent several years on post-doctoral research at the same institution focusing on antiviral immunology and specifically, the role of antiviral antibodies. He then joined Takeda (Immuno/Baxter/Baxalta/Shire), working in the area of Pathogen Safety of biopharmaceuticals, as well as research on virus antibodies and vaccines. He is well-published and has been a frequent international lecturer on the safety of biological medicinal products versus viruses and prions as well as antiviral defense, with particular emphasis on the role of virus antibodies/IVIG and vaccines.