Rona Singer Weinberg, PhD

Founding Scientist, Cell Therapy Laboratory at Comprehensive Cell Solutions

Speaker

Dr. Weinberg has recently transitioned from her role as Executive Director of NYBC’s Comprehensive Cell Solutions (CCS) to an advisory and consulting role for CCS. As executive director, Dr. Weinberg held two New York State Department of Health Tissue Banking licenses and Certificate of Qualification in Hematology and Immunohematology. She remains active in CCS in an advisory capacity. Dr. Weinberg has extensive knowledge of cellular therapy product manufacturing, cryopreservation, banking and distribution of cellular therapy products, as well as quality assurance practices. Dr. Weinberg is a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB), and International Society for Cell and Gene therapy (ISCT). She has served on the AABB Cellular Therapy, Current & Emerging Topics Subsection; AABB Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee; and AABB-ISCT Joint Working Group; as an inspector for the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapies (FACT) and AABB, and participates in the ASH Advocacy Leadership Institute. Dr. Weinberg was Principal Investigator of the MPN-RC Tissue Bank Core, funded by the National Cancer Institute since 2006, from its inception to 2023. Dr. Weinberg is also an Associate Member of NYBC’s LFK Research Institute, where her research interests focus on hematopoiesis and erythropoiesis, hemoglobinopathies, hemoglobin synthesis, and bone marrow failure syndromes. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and transfusion medicine fellows have been trained in her laboratory at NYBC and previously at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Weinberg earned a BS in Biology from Brooklyn College and a PhD in Biomedical Science from City University of New York at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has authored approximately one hundred peer reviewed publications and book chapters.