Isabelle Riviere

Vice President, Cell Therapy Sciences Takeda

A leader in cell therapy and cell engineering with 25+ years of experience developing and advancing cell therapy drug candidates from pre-clinical stage to late phase clinical trials and building strong collaborations between academia and industry partners, including CAR T cells, CD34+ hematopoietic cells, embryonic stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons, and iPS-derived T cells. Brings strong expertise and leadership in CMC enabling studies, clinical drug product manufacturing, quality control and analytics development, vector and gene editing tool manufacturing, quality assurance, compliance, and technology transfer, with a focus on patient access to cell and gene therapy treatments and sustainable models for rare and small patient populations.

Seminars

Wednesday 16th September 2026
Scaling to Phase 1 – A Biotech & Cancer Center Perspective
12:10 pm
  • Designing small-scale, cost-effective strategies to effectively scale therapies
  • Highlighting technologies to secure a highquality scale to phase 1 clinical trials
Isabelle Riviere - Expert Speaker at the 11th CAR-TCR Summit 2026