Dr. Mouchahoir received her PhD in Molecular Medicine from The George Washington University and is currently a research chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her work focuses on the development of reference materials, methods and data relevant to the biopharmaceutical industry. She was part of the team that developed the NISTmAb monoclonal antibody reference material and continues working to maintain the material. She has made analytical contributions in support of the upcoming NISTCHO cell line reference material and is currently developing methods for host cell protein detection and quantitation.