Dr. Slotky is an associate professor of oncology at Hackensack Median Health School of Medicine and the Director of the Cell Therapies Manufacturing Facility at the Hackensack University Medical Center. She earned her PhD studying proteins’ structure and function, and has a master degree in biostatistics. Dr. Slotky has been working in the cellular therapy field for over 15 years and has published numerous scientific articles in the field. She is a board member and the chair of the Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee for the Advanced Association of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB), and a member of the International Society of Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) Laboratory Practices committee, as well as the FACT Standards HCT Processing Subcommittee. Her current work and research efforts focuses on improving cell processing methods and patients’ outcomes, increasing patient access to advanced cell and gene therapy and providing education opportunities for clinicians and researchers.