Welcome Jennifer Vavala - Sr. Vice President of Quality!

We welcome Jennifer Vavala to Serán BioScience as Sr. Vice President of Quality!

Jennifer Vavala is an executive Quality and Operations leader with more than 25 years of experience across pharmaceutical, biologics, and life sciences organizations. Her experience includes enterprise Quality leadership, commercial readiness and manufacturing scale-up, regulatory inspection leadership, organizational transformation, and quality governance and risk management.

Most recently, Jennifer has advised pharmaceutical manufacturers and life sciences organizations on quality strategy, operational performance, regulatory remediation, commercial readiness, and organizational risk. Previously, she held executive Quality leadership roles with Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services and PCI Pharma Services. Her broader experience includes Quality and operational leadership roles with ProPharma Group, B. Braun Medical, and PerkinElmer, spanning pharmaceutical manufacturing, laboratory operations, quality systems, and regulatory compliance.

In her role at Serán, she will oversee all quality activities, including commercial and development quality operations, analytical quality control, and regulatory affairs. Jennifer’s deep expertise in commercial quality and regulatory will be instrumental as Serán completes construction, qualification, and validation of its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bend, OR—underscoring the company’s unwavering commitment to quality excellence.

Jennifer holds an MBA from Waynesburg University and a B.S. in Biology from Millersville University.

Welcome to the team Jennifer!

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