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Ashish Batra

Ashish Batra joined Dow Chemical in 2005 as a researcher in Dow’s elastomers business. His work to enhance the adhesion of polyolefins not only established him as an expert within the company, but also resulted in more than 20 patent applications.

When he moved to DowAgrosciences in 2010, the organization was launching increasingly complex crop protection formulations. As leader of formulation process development, Ashish was responsible for a team that scaled up nearly all formulation processes for crop protection, as well as the transfer of that technology to manufacturing...Read more

Richard Korsmeyer

Over his 30 years in industry, and through his leadership roles at Pfizer, Richard Korsmeyer has been a driving force behind the strategic development and commercial success of many original pharmaceutical technologies. In his current role at Pfizer, he has been responsible for numerous proprietary drug delivery platforms — from invention to clinical trials.

Richard is particularly known, technologically, for his development (with Nicholas Peppas) of the exponential equation for quantitating controlled drug release from polymeric matrices. That 1983 publication became the most...Read more

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