Lizette Caballero
Associate Director - Clinical & Cell Therapy Liaison Johnson & Johnson
Lizette Caballero graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Medical Technology from the University of Puerto Rico and brings over 24 years of experience in cellular therapy. She has led Cellular Therapy and Blood and Marrow Transplant laboratories at Florida Hospital and UCSF, overseeing quality control, process development, staff training, and regulatory compliance. Since 2020, she has served as Associate Director and Clinical Cell Therapy Liaison at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, supporting global CAR T clinical trials. An active ISCT member for 18+ years, she has held multiple leadership roles, mentored emerging professionals, and completed over 20 FACT inspections.
Seminars
- Reviewing standardized shipping lanes and customs protocols to ensure timely and predictable delivery of patient-specific therapies
- Coordinating with regulatory agencies, transport services, and logistics providers to maintain safety and integrity of live-cell products in transit
- Navigating regional transport differences and compliance requirements to reduce delays, prevent product loss, and minimize risk of expiration
- Discussing key challenges and mitigation strategies
- Enabling decentralized and mobile collection models to support community hospitals without on-site collection or processing facilities
- Implementing just-in-time delivery and alternative storage strategies to address limited ln2 infrastructure and ensure day-of-infusion readiness
- Aligning sponsors, manufacturers, logistics providers, and community hospitals with emerging FACT and BSR/PDA standards to support compliant transport, storage, and administration
