Advisory Board Member Profile
Mark Varilla
PPD
Senior Director of Lab Quality Assurance 
Areas of Expertise
Accelerate & Improve Decisions With Data, Navigating Politics Of Change
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Mark Varilla
Sr. Director, Laboratory QA PPD Mark Varilla has over 30 years’ experience in the vaccine industry with a primary focus on quality in vaccine manufacturing and clinical trials. He is currently Senior Director Laboratory QA, for the Richmond Vaccine Sciences and Biomarker Labs. In this role Mr. Varilla is responsible for assuring the quality of data to help PPD meet it purpose of improving health and mission of helping our customers deliver life changing therapies. He also supports clients in understanding the regulatory aspects of vaccine development. Prior to this, he was Director, Operations for PPD Vaccine Lab in Wayne, PA. In that role he led the immunology testing area for clinical testing and assay development as well as the vaccine lab site operations. Mr. Varilla began his PPD career in Global Quality and Compliance where he was Director of Lab QA and had responsibility for Quality Assurance for the vaccine lab in Wayne PA. In that role, he authored Quality Manuals and Quality Assurance plans, he developed a site Event and CAPA management system and interacted with clients to assure all quality expectations were met. Prior to joining PPD, Mark worked for Merck and Co., Inc., for 19 years in various positions of increasing responsibility including management of the Viral Vaccine QC release testing laboratory with a staff of 67 direct and indirect reports. This position involved all aspects of running the lab including maintaining the budget, staff management, new product development and commercialization teams, and participating in regulatory cGMP inspections. He also held positions in vaccine planning, Regulatory Licensing (supporting live virus CMC), and laboratory technical support. Mark possesses a bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory sciences from Temple University (PA).
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