Ron Chantung

Ron Chantung is Senior Vice President of Operations for AAV Manufacturing at Forge Biologics. He has a wide biotech industry experience background that spans over two decades, most recently overseeing operations at Societal CDMO, San Diego, which specializes in clinical through commercial oral solid dose plus sterile injectable drug product.  At Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services prior to that, he had direct oversight of drug substance, formulations, process sciences, supply chain, and 2 of the 6 sterile fill lines.  Mr. Chantung also supervised clinical and commercial production at PaxVax, Inc, led mammalian and microbial pre-commercial production at PacificGMP, and worked as a research associate for MediVas, LLC which focused on biologics delivery using a proprietary polyester-amide polymer(s). He managed the research cell and molecular biology labs at Immusol and started his career as an operator at MarDx in Carlsbad, CA, producing commercially approved Western Blot kits. Mr. Chantung obtained a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California.