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Manu Platt

Dr. Manu Platt became the inaugural director of the NIH-wide Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA Center) housed within NIBIB, as a new NIH campus model for accelerating technology-driven interdisciplinary research and clinical translation and to bring engineering, clinicians, and basic scientists together in February 2023,. Dr. Manu Platt earned his B.S. in Biology from Morehouse College and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech/Emory in Biomedical Engineering. After a postdoc at MIT, he returned to Georgia Tech/Emory’s joint department as an Assistant Professor where he...Read more

Aimable Habimana

My name is Aimable Habimana, I am an NGS Test Engineer here at Ginkgo. I began my career in this field after an Internship opportunity while in graduate school at the USDA-ARS. Here, I was working on cotton (“Understanding Drought Stress Response by Transcriptome Analysis") and this opportunity opened the door for me in utilizing sequencing technologies to analyze the molecular mechanisms in various organisms. After earning my master’s in biotechnology from Texas Tech University, I joined Ginkgo Bioworks; developing and working on the inhouse sequencing pipeline.  I have been at...Read more

Liping Zhao

Liping Zhao is currently the Eveleigh-Fenton Chair of Applied Microbiology at Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University. He is a fellow of American Academy of Microbiology. He is a senior fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He serves on Scientific Advisory Board for the Center for Microbiome Research and Education of American Gastroenterology Association (AGA).

His team has pioneered the approach of applying metagenomics-metabolomics integrated tools and dietary intervention for systems...Read more

Conference on Engineering Cosmetics and Consumer Products - 2019 - Chemspeed Technologies, Inc.

Chemspeed Technologies, Inc.

Nima Yazdanpanah

Nima is a consultant on advanced manufacturing and modeling and simulation in Bio/pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. His area of expertise covers mathematical modeling, process simulation, particulate matters, process design, and advanced manufacturing.

With more than 20 years of diverse experience in different industries, he has worked at R&D, process design, regulatory, and MSAT sections. At Procegence, he supports the bio/pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries on process/product development, scale-up, tech-transfer, and optimization. His key goals are to apply...Read more

Nima Yazdanpanah on Next-Gen Manufacturing

October 18, 2019
October 21, 2019

Sharing next-generation manufacturing knowledge and experiences among different chemical process industries has the potential to unlock advances for many.

November 2019

October 17, 2019

Global Chemical Engineers Community Will Meet at Orlando Conference Offering More Than 750 Technical Sessions

October 17, 2019
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will spotlight the roles that chemical engineers play in addressing societal and industrial challenges when the organization’s 2019 Annual Meeting convenes in Orlando, Florida, November 10–15. The...

Weslee Glenn

Dr. Weslee Glenn is a senior scientist currently based at Provivi, Inc. in Santa Monica, California. Prior to his role at Provivi, his academic and professional interests have focused on (1) understanding and engineering the processes that plants use to make the natural products that we humans co-opt as medicines and (2) developing technologies to understand how plants respond to stress, which will ultimately enable the facile engineering of important food crops. His work has been funded by several national fellowship competitions including the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Research...Read more

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