Joshua François, PhD is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Galit Lahav, Novartis Professor of Systems Biology. Dr. François’s research interest is to understand how extrinsic physical and chemical cues affect the behavior of individual cells. Before joining Dr. Lahav’s group, Dr. François investigated how extracellular matrix density affects the mechanics of 3-dimensional (3-D) white blood cell (leukocyte) migration. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. François uses his background in quantitative image analysis...Read more
Janine Tom is a Process Development Senior Scientist at Amgen in Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara and then obtained her PhD in Chemistry from UC Irvine, where she developed synthetic chemical tools to probe the innate immune response for vaccine development. At Amgen, she has worked on synthetic and hybrid modality programs, including traditional small molecule, antibody-drug conjugate and siRNA modalities. Her work in the hybrid molecule space also includes involvement in the ACS Green Chemistry Roundtable Peptide and...Read more
We are pleased to announce that Scott Nyquist, Director Emeritus, McKinsey and Company, and Autumn Hong, McKinsey Energy Insights Petrochemicals Leader, will be delivering our October 1 Keynote Address on “The Future of Petrochemicals.”
Scott is a director and senior partner in the management consulting Firm McKinsey & Company. He serves energy and industrial companies on matters of strategy, organization, and performance improvement.Read more
Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration. The center is responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of biological products, including vaccines, allergenic products, blood and blood products, and cellular, tissue, and gene therapies.
Dr. Marks and center staff are committed to facilitating the development of biological products and providing oversight throughout the product life cycle.
Dr. Peter Marks received his graduate degree in cell and molecular biology and his...Read more
If you're outside the US, this year is a great opportunity to join us at the AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety on August 17–21.
