Manisha is an interdisciplinary scientist with extensive experience in in vitro assay development for drug discovery and pre-clinical drug-safety studies. Her area of expertise includes the application of mammalian cell and organotypic culture models integrating high-throughput analytical approaches with novel in vitro platforms to solve drug safety problems in drug-induced liver injury and liver diseases. She currently leads several R&D innovation projects to support and expand Lonza’s primary cell, assay and media portfolio within Cell Discovery R&D at Lonza Biosciences.