Sid Advant, Ph.D.

Dr. Advant has served as Savara’s Executive Vice President, Global Technical Operations since March 2024. With approximately three decades of experience in the biopharmaceutical sector, he has considerable expertise in drug substance, drug product, and analytical development with early- and late-stage clinical and commercially approved biologics. Dr. Advant also has extensive expertise in technology transfer, scale-up and cGMP manufacturing (both internal and external) in a highly regulated environment. To date, Dr. Advant has helped launch multiple biologic assets across several therapeutic areas. Prior to joining Savara, he was VP, Manufacturing Operations at GSK, where he was responsible for multi-site drug substance and drug product operations. Previously he held roles of increasing responsibility at Celgene Corporation (acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb), Kemwell BioPharma, ImClone/Lilly, and Diosynth Biotechnology (now FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnolgy), among others. Dr. Advant holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of Connecticut.