William Whitford's Biography

William Whitford, Strategic Solutions Leader, GE Healthcare Life Sciences

Bill Whitford is the Strategic Solutions Leader for BioProcess at GE Healthcare Life Sciences in Logan, UT with over 20 years experience in biotechnology product and process development. He joined the company 14 years ago as a team leader in R&D developing products supporting biomass expansion, protein expression and virus secretion in mammalian and invertebrate cell lines. Products he has commercialized include defined and animal product-free hybridoma media, fed-batch supplements, and aqueous lipid dispersions. An invited lecturer at international conferences, Bill has published over 250 articles, book chapters and patents in a number of fields in the bioproduction arena. He now enjoys such industry activities as serving on the editorial advisory board for BioProcess International.