Timothy Lutz
Tim has over 30 years of experience in the biological and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry with over 25 years working in the biologics arena in both commercial and clinical operations. Additionally, Tim has more than 20 years in contract manufacturing. His primary focus has been in aseptic parenteral manufacturing.
Tim is the Senior Vice President, Manufacturing with ProKidney, LLC. Prior to joining ProKidney LLC, Tim was Chief Manufacturing Officer for Matica Biotechnology, a start-up CDMO providing Cell and Gene manufacturing Services to clients developing vaccines and virus-based cell and gene therapy products. Tim has worked for protein and virus CDMO’s including Lonza, helping clients to bring their novel products to market. He was also involved in the launch of Dendreon’s Provenge, a cell therapy treatment for prostate cancer, the 1st commercially approved immunotherapy in the United States. Tim has also extensively worked with large and small molecule products in vaccines manufacturing. Tim earned his BS from Kent State University.