Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. announced the appointment of Beverly Wolgast, Ph.D., as executive director of Quality and cGMP Programs. Dr. Wolgast will oversee and manage Applied DNA's quality assurance and control and regulatory compliance spanning the Company's three business segments, including implementing an ISO 13485-based quality management system for the scalable cGMP manufacture of LineaDNA?. Dr. Wolgast brings to Applied DNA over 30 years of pharmaceutical and biotech experience in commercial and clinical-stage companies, with a proven track record of quality and regulatory compliance management and expertise in commercial biologics manufacturing operations. Most recently, she was Director of CleanCap® GMP Manufacturing at TriLink BioTechnologies, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and division of Maravai LifeSciences, where she also provided leadership for TriLink's manufacture of the mRNA-based BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

She is also a strategic and focused leader with a record of mobilizing technical resources and achieving efficient compliance solutions to address business needs. Dr. Wolgast's expertise includes industry regulatory compliance, program management, operational readiness, process engineering, lab operations, automation engineering, and technical validation. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Wolgast has held leadership roles within the biopharma industry, including at Biocept, Inc., Diomics Corporation, and, most recently, with TriLink BioTechnologies, where she focused on post-transcriptional capping technologies to create capped mRNA products with shorter manufacturing times, reduced immunogenicity, and increased stability.

Dr. Wolgast earned her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Brandeis University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in applied nanomaterials at Harvard University.