Thomas Fletcher is R&D Director, Process Development for FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, a company that specializes in the development, manufacture, and supply of cell culture media for a variety of applications. As a part of the Industrial Cell Culture business, Fletcher leads the company’s efforts to provide relevant solutions to the various and frequent challenges faced by biopharmaceutical and other cell-culture-based manufacturers. He has over 20 years of experience in developing media for large-scale production processes. Fletcher has previous experience in protein chemistry research at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, and working at Becton Dickinson & Co.