Christa Short is a process engineer, domain expert and technical group leader with over 21 years of industry experience in the biomanufacturing arena. Her technical expertise is centered on CHO- and HEK-based process design and development, scale-up, tech transfer, scale-down and process characterization for biological drug substances in both pharma and CDMO environments. In her current role at Wheeler Bio, she is focused on the build out of Wheeler’s development labs and platform manufacturing technology (ECHO2™). Christa is a sought-after industry collaborator for several key vendors and has presented at numerous scientific conferences. Christa graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2000, where she earned her B.Sc. in biochemistry.