Brenda Alder MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CABPH(AABB)

Brenda Alder works at Northside Hospital Atlanta as the Manager over Quality & Regulations for the Cellular Therapy Lab and six Tissue Banks, ensuring the hospital is compliant with standards and regulations pertaining to HCT/Ps. Mrs. Alder has worked >25 years qualifying and collecting cell therapy, cord and blood donors, processing & transplanting CT (cell therapy) / immune effector cell products and as a Specialist in Blood Banking for transfusion medicine. She serves on her hospital IRB and works daily onboarding new research protocols for biotherapies. Mrs. Alder helped pioneer the only certification program available for biotherapy professionals: CABP (Certified Advance Biotherapy Professionals) and is qualified as a CABP. Mrs. Alder is a committee member for the new Standards for Cell & Gene Therapy for Pharmacies and its associated Accreditation Committee with the Association for Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB). She is a past-Chair and current member of the CT Standards & Accreditation Program Committees, the uniform CT donor history questionnaire committee, and the Transfusion Transmitted Diseases (TTD) committee (since 1999). These committees work alongside FDA CBER liaisons in developing AABB CT standards to align with national regulations (FDA) and worldwide standards (AABB) related to biotherapies.