Kate Farrell

Consultant

Currently a full-time consultant,  Kate Farrell formerly served in a variety of roles at Amgen. While at Amgen, she headed the department managing the supply of drugs for Amgen's clinical studies. Before this role, she was the Oncology Therapeutic Area Head in Global Operations Planning following a period where she worked in Medical Affairs on a product launch. Additionally, for two years, she was Product Team Leader during the transition of a pipeline product from Phase 2 to 3. Dr. Farrell initially joined Amgen as a research scientist in the Preclinical division. She has a PhD in biophysics from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and was a Medical Research Council of Canada Post Doctoral Fellow initially at UCLA, and then at the Max Plank Institute in Munich, Germany. Her areas of research expertise include vascular biology as well as epithelial biology and gastrointestinal pathology.