Catherine Milne received her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England in the field of molecular genetics and developmental biology. She joined the Council of Europe, European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) in 1999 to work in the fields of Official Control Authority Batch Release (OCABR) and biological standardisation. She is now head of the section covering activities in biological standardisation, international standards for antibiotics (ISA) and OCABR of human and veterinary vaccines and medicinal products derived from human blood and plasma. In her role as EDQM Biological Standardisation Programme (BSP) administrator, she coordinated a number of projects for the establishment of reference standards and methods for the evaluation of human and veterinary biologicals with a focus on the 3Rs. She represents EDQM as an observer at the EMA BWP, CAT and the 3Rs Working Party and is a member of the
IABS VBC.