The 5th Bioengineering & Translational Medicine Conference brought together top researchers from academia and industry to discuss advances in the development, clinical and commercial translation...
Fueled by the rapid advancements in both epigenetic research as well as translational gene editing and gene therapy, the EpiBio conferences were established in 2017 as a platform for synthetic...
Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science at the Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), as well as the College of Engineering and Computing Distinguished Professor and the Laufer Endowed Chair in Energy. He is an affiliated Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic Univ., Morocco. He is the past chair of the Linda and Bipin Doshi Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2009–2019), an AIChE Fellow, and the 2019 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of...Read more
Charles W. Lyon is the Senior Vice President for Strategy and Planning at FutureFuel Chemical Company. He has nearly 40 years of experience in international business leadership, product management, manufacturing management, and engineering in the industrial specialty chemicals and agricultural chemicals sectors. He is an active alumnus of the Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), where he is the chair of the Linda and Bipin Doshi Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering’s Industrial Advisory Council, a board member of the Academy of Chemical Engineers, and a...Read more
Richard A. Bausell is now retired from his position as vice president of pipeline and power for URS Corp., where he was responsible for organizational leadership, deliverability of services, contract management, quality assurance, and global client relations. He has more than 40 years of experience in a variety of areas, including military, chemicals, oil and gas, and consulting. He is an active alumnus of the Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), where he is a board member of the Academy of Chemical Engineers, former chair of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...Read more
Bruce E. Kramer, JD, is a partner at Sughrue Mion, PLLC, an intellectual property law firm in Washington, DC (Email: bkramer@sughrue.com). He has more than 30 years of experience in patent law, and he prepares and prosecutes patent applications in a wide variety of chemical technologies, including polymers, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, green technology, ceramics, alloys, organic chemistry, and engineering processes. Before becoming a patent attorney, Kramer worked as an engineer for Babcock & Wilcox Co. He has a BS in chemical engineering...Read more
Tony Joseph Mathew is a graduate research assistant at Purdue Univ., where he is working toward his PhD under the guidance of Rakesh Agrawal and Mohit Tawarmalani. His focus is on modelling and optimization of multicomponent distillation configurations, and he has presented several times at AIChE and Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD) conferences. He has a bachelor’s of technology in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.Read more
Mohit Tawarmalani, PhD, is the Allison and Nancy Schleicher Chair of Management at Purdue Univ., where he teaches courses in business analytics and optimization and conducts research on optimization methods and their applications in separations, network systems design, and economics of business decisions. He has co-authored BARON, one of the leading commercial solvers for global optimization, as well as a book on global optimization algorithms. He received the INFORMS Computing Society Prize and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for his work on global optimization. He is a member of the...Read more
